A haunting that never stops: Psychiatry's problem of description

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 434-435

  Nordgaard, Julie ^a   Parnas, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORISM; CHECKLIST; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 84877707138     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acps.12092     Document Type: Editorial

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