The History of Mental Symptoms : Descriptive Psychopathology since the Nineteenth Century

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Summary: Excelente book, every psychiatry should read it.
Review: This excelent book covers with outstanding charm and precision the origins and transformations of the psychiatric terms, from de nineteenth century to the present days.

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Summary: Indispensable to the psychopathologist
Review: This is simply the best book of its kind. It stands on my shelf next to Kraepelin, Bleuler, Roy Porter, and Macalpine & Hunter, but gets more use than all of these combined.