Pseudopatient or pseudoscience: A reviewer's perspective

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 193, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 740-742

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bayside Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALINGERING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BOOK REVIEWS; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERIODICALS; PHYSICIANS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 27744484700     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000186016.78212.d8     Document Type: Review

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3. Slater L (2005) Commentary. J Nerv Ment Dis. 193:743-744.
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5. Spitzer R, Lilienfeld S, Miller M (2005) Rosenhan revisited: The scientific credibility of Lauren Slater's pseudopatient diagnosis study. J Nerv Ment Dis. 193:734-739.