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Teaching Trauma and Narrative: Using Salinger’s For Esmé—with Love and Squalor

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    Jungjin Kim, Georgina Hartzell, Virginia Dawson & Andrew Furman

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Kim, J., Hartzell, G., Dawson, V. et al. Teaching Trauma and Narrative: Using Salinger’s For Esmé—with Love and Squalor . Acad Psychiatry 41, 737–740 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0727-z

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