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Research Article

Trauma-related dreams of Australian veterans with PTSD: content, affect and phenomenology

(Senior Clinical Fellow) , (Associate Professor) , (Associate Professor) & (Professor)
Pages 853-860 | Published online: 22 Aug 2011

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