The invention of post-traumatic stress disorder and the social usefulness of a psychiatric category

British Medical Journal

Volumn 322, Issue 7278, 2001, Pages 95-98

  Summerfield, D ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WAR;

EID: 0035852449     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.322.7278.95     Document Type: Review

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