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EARLY CAREER AWARD PAPER

Wisdom and psychotherapy: Studying expert therapists' clinical wisdom to explicate common processes

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Pages 31-47 | Received 25 Sep 2013, Accepted 14 Jun 2014, Published online: 01 Aug 2014

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