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. 2012 Feb;11(1):27-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.wpsyc.2012.01.024.

Are you as smart as a 4th grader? Why the prototype-similarity approach to diagnosis is a step backward for a scientific psychiatry

Jerome C Wakefield  1
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Are you as smart as a 4th grader? Why the prototype-similarity approach to diagnosis is a step backward for a scientific psychiatry

Jerome C Wakefield. World Psychiatry. 2012 Feb.
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