Anxiety sensitivity and chronic pain: Empirical findings, clinical implications, and future directions

Anxiety Sensitivity: Theory, Research, and Treatment of the Fear of Anxiety

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 239-269

  Asmundson, Gordon J G ^a   Weems, Carl F ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410603326-22     Document Type: Chapter

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