Culture and context in the evolutionary concept of mental disorder.
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Summary
The evolutionary theory of the concept of mental disorder as harmful dysfunction that J. C. Wakefield (1999) proposed does not correspond to how the term disorder is used in psychiatric nosology or in clinicians' everyday practice, and is not especially useful for research, clinical, or social purposes.
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- 1999-08-01
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Computer science
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