Wakefield's hybrid account of mental disorder

World Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 163-164

  Brülde, Bengt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NOTE; PEDOPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 35748977944     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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