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18 - Generalized Anxiety Disorder

from Section 4 - Etiology and Phenomenology of Specific Anxiety Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

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Ki Eun Shin ,
Lucas S. LaFreniere  and
Michelle G. Newman
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 517 - 549
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