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EMPIRICAL PAPER

Narrative and emotion process in psychotherapy: An empirical test of the Narrative-Emotion Process Coding System (NEPCS)

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Pages 594-607 | Received 17 Oct 2012, Accepted 26 Sep 2013, Published online: 05 Nov 2013

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