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Evidence-based psychiatry: ‘Beguiled by certainty’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Patricia Casey*
Affiliation:
Mater Misericordiae Hospital, 63 Eccles Street, Dublin 7, Ireland
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