Introduction to the Special Section on Working on dreams, from psychotherapy to neuroscience
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Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University, and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, MD, United States.
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Giovanardi, G., & Spangler, P. (2021). Introduction to the Special Section on <em>Working on dreams, from psychotherapy to neuroscience</em>. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.578
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