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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
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

Extract

“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?”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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