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Psychiatry is More than a Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. H. Cawley
R. H. Cawley*
Affiliation:
Charter Nightingale Hospital, 11–19 Lisson Grove, London NW1 6SH
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I propose that psychiatry is an applied science and in addition something more. I believe the advances in its scientific content, over the last four decades, may have dazzled us into blindness, or at least made us inarticulate, about the dimension which does not fall within the boundaries of science. If that is true, the future of the subject is threatened by the neglect of one side of its foundations.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 2 , February 1993 , pp. 154 - 160
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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