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Depression: Distress or Disease?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paul Bebbington
Paul Bebbington*
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MRC Social Psychiatry Unit Institute of Psychiatry De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 4 , April 1986 , pp. 479
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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