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EMPIRICAL PAPER

The efficacy of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, fluoxetine and their combination in the outpatient treatment of depression

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Pages 612-624 | Received 22 Jun 2013, Accepted 08 Jun 2014, Published online: 21 Jul 2014

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