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Addressing the fear of fat: extending imaginal exposure therapy for anxiety disorders to anorexia nervosa

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Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the client for all of her hard work in therapy. This work is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health F31-MH096433-01 to Cheri A. Levinson.

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  1. Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA

    Cheri A. Levinson & Elizabeth N. Riley

  2. McCallum Place Eating Disorder Treatment Center, St. Louis, USA

    John Rapp

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Levinson, C.A., Rapp, J. & Riley, E.N. Addressing the fear of fat: extending imaginal exposure therapy for anxiety disorders to anorexia nervosa. Eat Weight Disord 19, 521–524 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-014-0115-6

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