A psychoanalyst looks at bipolar diagnosis in children

Oct 03, 2011, 07:17 AM

pachyderm

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He thinks that the structure of interviews may lead to overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder in children:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...-bipolar-disor

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