Diagnostic line-drawing, professional boundaries, and the rhetoric of scientific justification: A critical appraisal of the american psychiatric association's DSM project

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-29

  Butler, Peter V ^a  

^a ROYAL REHABILITATION CENTRE SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 0033457561     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00050069908257420     Document Type: Article

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