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Science and the Training of Psychiatrists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. C. Woodmansey*
Affiliation:
Sheffield Children's Hospital

Extract

There can be no more urgent or conspicuous problem in psychiatry, as a scientific discipline, than that it lacks a generally agreed theoretical framework on which to base practice and teaching.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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