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Original Articles

Overgeneral autobiographical memory predicts higher prospective levels of depressive symptoms and intrusions in borderline patients

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Pages 1302-1310 | Received 12 May 2015, Accepted 28 Sep 2015, Published online: 22 Oct 2015

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