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The Life-Story Method in Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Education: The Development of Confidence

This paper contrasts two ways of reasoning about psychiatric disorders—the disease concept and the life-story method—and examines their implications for the development of professional self-confidence in fledgling psychiatrists.

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