Epidemiological Methods in the Study of Mental Disorders
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چکیده
duction to the study and criticism of epidemiological research in Psychiatry. This is particularly valuable at the present time when great interest is being aroused in the subject, not only in the public hut also in other branches of medicine : for pressure is likely to be Put on the research worker to provide more results than he can reliably do : and it is also probable that any results produced will be widely misinterpreted from wishful thinking.
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