Editorial: Lumping or Splitting in Diagnosis - What's the Point?
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Beyond lumping and splitting
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Social Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0020-7640,1741-2854
DOI: 10.1177/0020764007082282