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Obsessive compulsivePsychologyPsychoanalysisFunction (biology)Compulsive behaviorPsychiatryPsychotherapistNeuroscienceBiologyEvolutionary biology
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- 1989
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- review
- Volume
- 260
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 82-89
- Citations
- 146
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Judith L. Rapoport
(1989).
The Biology of Obsessions and Compulsions.
Scientific American
, 260
(3)
, 82-89.
https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0389-82
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- DOI
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0389-82