"Make-believes" in Psychiatry, Or, The Perils of ProgressAn assessment of the recent biological and psychological revolutions in psychiatry. The text evaluates the positive aspects and pitfalls of the advances made between 1960 and 1992 and critiques the expanding system of discrete and defined disorders, suggesting that some are make believes. |
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Codified Disorder in Psychiatric Taxonomy | 15 |
Looking Backward into | 35 |
Keypoints of Our Depression Classification The DSMIII | 58 |
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