Open AccessThe Epidemic in Mental Illness: Clinical Fact or Survey Artifact?
Author(s) -
Allan V. Horwitz,
Jerome C. Wakefield
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
contexts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6052
pISSN - 1536-5042
DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2006.5.1.19
Subject(s) - artifact (error) , mental illness , psychology , psychiatry , mental health , gerontology , criminology , medicine , neuroscience
Do half of all Americans suffer from mental disorders at some point in their lives? Or do surveys misdiagnose the distress that is a normal part of every life?
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