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Misdiagnosing normality: Psychiatry's failure to address the problem of false positive diagnoses of mental disorder in a changing professional environment

Jerome C. WakefieldSilver School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 337-351 | Published online: 16 Jul 2010

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