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Personality through a positivist lens
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Personality through a positivist lens

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Oct 15, 2024
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Many years ago, when I was still allowed to teach medical students and trainees in psychiatry (residents), I would start my talk with a question: “At the beginning of your first lecture on your first day in psychiatry, what was the name of the model of mental disorder the professor he said he would be discussing?” Invariably, the answer was: “He didn’t.…

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