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Lumpers and Splitters: A Paradox for Psychiatry. Discussion of Dr. Brown’s Paper

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The Challenge of Family Therapy

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I was very much taken with Dr. Brown’s characterization of the neophyte child psychiatry trainee and the typical unpreparedness of these trainees to work with children and families—not simply from the point of view of knowledge, but from that of experience.

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Combrinck-Graham, L. (1980). Lumpers and Splitters: A Paradox for Psychiatry. Discussion of Dr. Brown’s Paper. In: Flomenhaft, K., Christ, A.E. (eds) The Challenge of Family Therapy. The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry and Psychology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3845-1_18

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