The twain meet: Distress, disorder and the continuing conundrum of categories (comment on Horwitz)

Health

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-319

  Wheaton, Blair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL STATUS; WAR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 34347220178     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459307077545     Document Type: Article

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