Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 374-399

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a  

^a Apartment 9C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANALYSIS; ANKLE SPRAIN; CONCEPT FORMATION; COUGHING; EVOLUTION; FEVER; GRIEF; MALADJUSTMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SNEEZING;

EID: 0032795521     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.108.3.374     Document Type: Review

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