The concept of schizoaffective disorder: Utility versus validity and reliability – a transcultural perspective

The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra

Volumn 9780521858588, Issue , 2006, Pages 104-132

  Okasha, Ahmed ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

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Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS;

EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; MENTAL DISORDERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84928279448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511544040.007     Document Type: Chapter

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