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The biopsychosocial model in Anglo-American psychiatry: Past, present and future?

David Pilgrim Lancashire Care NHS Trust & Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, University of Liverpool
Pages 585-594 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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