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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Treating people you never see: internet-based treatment of the internalising mental disorders

Gavin Andrews A B and Nickolai Titov A
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A Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD), School of Psychiatry, UNSW at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. Email: nickt@unsw.edu.au

B Corresponding author. Email: gavina@unsw.edu.au

Australian Health Review 34(2) 144-147 https://doi.org/10.1071/AH09775
Submitted: 19 April 2009  Accepted: 18 November 2009   Published: 25 May 2010


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