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Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Comparative Study in North Carolina, London and Glasgow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Myron G. Sandifer ,
Anthony Hordern ,
Gerald C. Timbury  and
Linda M. Green
Myron G. Sandifer
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40506
Anthony Hordern
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
Gerald C. Timbury
Affiliation:
Gartnavel Royal Hospital (University of Glasgow)
Linda M. Green
Affiliation:
North Carolina Foundation for Mental Health Research, Inc., Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina 27602
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“What's the use of their having names” the Gnat said, “if they won't answer to them?” “No use to them“, said Alice, “but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?”

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 506 , January 1968 , pp. 1 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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