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Psychiatry, hegemony and the myth of mental illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Frank Houghton
Frank Houghton*
Affiliation:
Irish Centre for Research on Applied Social Studies (ICRASS), Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland
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Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , June 2010 , pp. 103
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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