Why psychology needs conceptual analysts: Wachtel's "discontents" revisited

Applied and Preventive Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-43

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual analysis; Foucault; Harmful dysfunction; Philosophy of psychology; Theoretical psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548718121     PISSN: 09621849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appsy.2007.07.014     Document Type: Note

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