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EMPIRICAL PAPER

Trauma-related shame and guilt as time-varying predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during imagery exposure and imagery rescripting—A randomized controlled trial

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Pages 518-532 | Received 25 Sep 2013, Accepted 16 Apr 2014, Published online: 23 May 2014

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