Posted by boB on April 7, 2000, at 11:54:25
In reply to Re: treatments, posted by Your focus is too narrow on April 7, 2000, at 1:54:31
Mental diseases occur across cultures, but they occur with greater frequency and intensity in some cultures. The conclusion that mental diseases are medical problems evades a common reality to medical problems, and that is that things cause medical problems. Oxygen treats the ill effects of prolonged tobbacco use, but smoking is the underlying problem. The DSM-IV nomenclature allows practitioners to isolate the result and not to consider underlying causes.
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