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SPECIAL SECTION: Difficult Assessment Cases: Psychodynamic Perspectives

To Resume a Stalled Psychotherapy? Psychological Testing to Understand an Impasse and Reevaluate Treatment Options

Pages 241-249 | Received 20 Oct 2014, Published online: 21 Jan 2015

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