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Using behavioural ecology to understand depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Justin H. G. Williams
Justin H. G. Williams*
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University Department of Psychiatry, Ninewells Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 173 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 453 - 454
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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