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Severity and the stressor criterion in post-traumatic stress disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael A. Simpson*
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Centre for Psychosocial and Traumatic Stress, Pretoria Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Africa
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