Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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The sorry saga of personality disorder.

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Niall McLaren
Mar 19, 2024
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Imagine a factory that produces a machine that sells very well among the in-crowd. As soon as it is delivered, buyers eagerly unwrap it and find a black box about so big. It is a uniform cube apart from the front where there are a single white button and five little coloured lights: Orange, Cobalt, Emerald, Amethyst and a lurid Neon pink, usually abbrev…

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