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In his whimsically titled book, Dr. van Praag has assigned himself the monumental task of reformulating contemporary psychiatric diagnostic methodology, as reflected in the third and third revised editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III and DSM-III-R). Drawing on his impressive body of clinical and basic research, starting during his residency in the late 1950s and continuing throughout his distinguished career, most recently as chairman of the department of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, van Praag proposes a "root and branch" restructuring of our contemporary concepts of psychiatric diagnosis.
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