Witches, multiple personalities, and other psychiatric artifacts

Paul R. McHugh

doi:10.1038/nm0295-110

Witches, multiple personalities, and other psychiatric artifacts

Paul R. McHugh

School of Medicine

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Contemporary psychiatric misdirections derived primarily from standard medical errors of oversimplification, misplaced emphasis, and invention are reviewed. These particular errors, however, were in part prompted and sustained by the sociocultural fads and fashions of the day. The results have been disastrous for everyone — patients, families, the public and psychiatry itself.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	110-114
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature medicine
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0295-110
State	Published - Feb 1995

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