Does psychiatry need an overarching concept of "mental disorder"?

World Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 157-158

  Jablensky, Assen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HARMFUL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIETY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 35748954077     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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