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Stripping the Forest from the Rotten Trees: Compassionate Self-Responding Is a Way of Coping, but Reduced Uncompassionate Self-Responding Mainly Reflects Psychopathology

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  1. Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Peter Muris & Henry Otgaar

  2. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Stefan Pfattheicher

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Muris, P., Otgaar, H. & Pfattheicher, S. Stripping the Forest from the Rotten Trees: Compassionate Self-Responding Is a Way of Coping, but Reduced Uncompassionate Self-Responding Mainly Reflects Psychopathology. Mindfulness 10, 196–199 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-018-1030-0

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