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Meditation and psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Philip Snaith*
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University of Leeds School of Medicine, Division of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences in Relation to Medicine, Level 5, Clinical Sciences Building, St James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, e-mail: [email protected]
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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