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. 2025 Sep 22;2(9):e0000439.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmen.0000439. eCollection 2025.

The mental health crisis: Only top down regulation will cure medicine's folly

Robert Charles Smith  1
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The mental health crisis: Only top down regulation will cure medicine's folly

Robert Charles Smith. PLOS Ment Health. .
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Fig 1. The biopsychosocial model within the systems hierarchy.
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