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Depression: Distress or Disease?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paul Bebbington*
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit Institute of Psychiatry De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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