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By Paul R. McHugh. 249 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $25. ISBN 0-8018-8249-4.

In the preface to this collection of well-written, sometimes elegant essays for medical journals and for magazines such as Commentary, First Things, and The Weekly Standard, Paul McHugh writes, "To avoid an unrelenting stance of criticism against psychiatry that provides no solutions to its problems . . ., [this] book concludes with essays that describe the systematic ways of thinking about psychiatric disorders taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine." McHugh, director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University from 1975 to 2001, begins his book with criticism of those who fail . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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