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Bimodality and the Nature of Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. F. Garside*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Abstract

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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