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On Brightening Up: Triggers and Trajectories to Recovery from Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gordon Parker*
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales
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Professor Gordon Parker, Psychiatry Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Australia
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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