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Editorial
. 2023 Oct 11:8:1258264.
doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1258264. eCollection 2023.

Editorial: Psychiatrization of society

Timo Beeker  1 , Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk  2 , Sanne Te Meerman  3 , China Mills  4
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Editorial: Psychiatrization of society

Timo Beeker et al. Front Sociol. .
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Keywords: health system research; medicalization; overdiagnosis; pharmaceuticalization; psychiatric epidemiology; psychiatric ethics; psychiatrization.

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