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Experimental Method in Clinical Psychological Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. W. Payne*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5

Extract

Perhaps in no other applied discipline are there to be found so many differences of opinion as exist in clinical psychology today. Clinical psychologists in fact even disagree about the fundamental approach to their own subject. Let us examine briefly what appear to be the major approaches.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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