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On Developing a Mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. Peter Hobson*
Affiliation:
Developmental Psychopathology Research Unit, Adult Department, The Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA, and Department of Psychiatry, UCL Medical School, London W1N 8AA
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