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Reflections on Nine Years as Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry

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Whitman, R.M. Reflections on Nine Years as Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 15, 50–56 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341297

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