Witches, multiple personalities, and other psychiatric artifacts
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Medicine
- Vol. 1 (2) , 110-114
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0295-110
Abstract
Contemporary psychiatric misdirections derived primarily from standard medical errors of oversimplification, misplaced emphasis, and invention are reviewed. These particular errors, however, were in part prompted and sustained by the sociocultural fads and fashions of the day. The results have been disastrous for everyone — patients, families, the public and psychiatry itself.Keywords
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