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Remembering as an observer: How is autobiographical memory retrieval vantage perspective linked to depression?

Willem Kuyken University of Exeter, UK
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Michelle L. Moulds University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 624-634 | Received 23 Oct 2008, Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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