Mental disorder as a black box essentialist concept

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 465-472

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a  

^a Apartment 9C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EVALUATION; EVOLUTION; MENTAL DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; PLASTICITY;

EID: 0032797501     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.108.3.465     Document Type: Article

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