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Failure to Integrate Brain and Mind (or Blaming Descartes to Understand a Very Modern Dilemma about Explanatory Models, Psychiatric Treatment, and Underfunding of Clinical Care and Research)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

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