Delusions: The continuum versus category debate

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 505-511

  Mullen, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Category; Continuum; Delusion

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; DELUSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; MENTAL DISEASE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CULTURE; DELUSIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 0242551739     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2003.01239.x     Document Type: Review

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