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Original Article

Questioning diagnoses in clinical practice: a thematic analysis of clinical psychologists’ accounts of working beyond diagnosis in the United Kingdom

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Pages 450-456 | Received 01 Oct 2016, Accepted 19 Dec 2017, Published online: 08 Feb 2018

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