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Case 26 - The young woman who was “nothing but skin and bones”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2021

By
Kayla L. Fisher  and
Michelle Tom
Edited by
Takesha Cooper ,
Gerald Maguire  and
Stephen Stahl
Takesha Cooper
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Gerald Maguire
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Stephen Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology , pp. 307 - 324
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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