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. 2019 Jun;28(3):356-357.
doi: 10.1017/S204579601800080X. Epub 2019 Jan 15.

Is psychotherapy effective? Pretending everything is fine will not help the field forward

Pim Cuijpers  1 , Eirini Karyotaki  1 , Mirjam Reijnders  1 , David D Ebert  1
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Is psychotherapy effective? Pretending everything is fine will not help the field forward

Pim Cuijpers et al. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2019 Jun.
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