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December 1999

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Identifying new mental disorders and their "curse" had become a productive industry; it is also bad medicine.


About the Author

Paul R. McHugh, whose article, “Dying Made Easy,” appeared in our February 1999 issue, is the Henry Phipps professor of psychiatry at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychiatrist in chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.