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The general psychiatrist as specialist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John L. Cox
John L. Cox*
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School of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele University, Staffordshire ST4 7QB
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Although the definition of a specialist as an individual knowing “more and more” about “less and less” could be construed as a somewhat cynical critique of certain aspects of contemporary psychiatry, the Universal English Dictionary defines a specialist as a person engaged in a “special line of study or special branch of a profession”; a definition more relevant to this article which attempts to resolve the paradox of the “generalist as specialist”, and to outline the way in which general psychiatry is a special branch of a profession.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 9 , September 1992 , pp. 529 - 530
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