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Edited by Colin A. Ross and Alvin Pam. 294 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1995. $37.50. ISBN 0-471-00776-5.

Optimists see the differences among psychiatry's multiple schools of thought as a prerequisite for the healthy debate required for growth. Skeptics see the same differences as ideological squabbling that undermines the field's credibility. Pessimists will always see a battleground for funding, profit, politics, power, and fame. Learners see the multiplicity of perspectives as either challenging or confusing. Many have put their hope for clarity in Science. The promise of definitive answers through the application of empirical research, statistical analysis, and formal inferential logic has created "biologic psychiatry," now the predominant paradigm in the field. The ascendancy of a psychodynamic approach, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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