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Politics of Diagnostic Criteria: Specifiers of Pedophilic Disorder in DSM-5

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  1. Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Anesthesiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Tolan Park Building, 3rd Floor, 3901 Chrysler Service Dr., Detroit, MI, 48201, USA

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Balon, R. Politics of Diagnostic Criteria: Specifiers of Pedophilic Disorder in DSM-5. Arch Sex Behav 43, 1235–1236 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0246-2

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