Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 43, Issue 6 , Pages 420-426 , November 2002

Dimensional diagnosis of depression: Adding the dimension of course to severity, and comparison to the DSM

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 43, Issue 6 , Pages 420-426 , November 2002

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