Fanatical about "harmful dysfunction"

World Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 161-162

  Fulford, Kenneth W M ^a   Thornton, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; NEUROSCIENCE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 35748932069     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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