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Psychiatry, Systems Theory, Education, and Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Maxwell Jones*
Affiliation:
Staff Development Department, Fort Logan Mental Health Center, 3520 West Oxford Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80236. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry University of Colorado; Member Expert Advisory Panel, World Health Organization

Extract

How far are the traditional skills of psychiatry relevant to the everyday problems of our time? Or, put differently, do the goals of psychiatry reach beyond identifying someone as mentally ill and treating such an individual?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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