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A major contribution to modern understanding of diseases resulting from stressful interaction between the environment and the individual has been made by Selye, who introduced a new concept in medicine known as “disease of adaptation.”
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Serban, G. (1976). Stress and Human Psychopathology. In: Serban, G. (eds) Psychopathology of Human Adaptation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2238-2_23
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