The heartland of psychiatry, revisited

Author/s
Guy M. Goodwin
Citation
Issue 3 Summer 2013
CEPiP.2013;1:7-9
Abstract

In 2007 John Geddes and I published an editorial in the British Journal of Psychiatry in which we highlighted the adoption of schizophrenia as psychiatry’s heartland and its largely negative consequences for the practice of psychiatry as a distinctive medical specialty. It did not have a very wide impact. I received a few friendly emails (or maybe people even wrote letters then) but it has rarely been cited.

Cite as: Cutting Edge Psychiatry in Practice 2013, 3(1):7-9; https://doi.org/10.65031/iysd4961

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