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“There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.”

Quote by Allen Frances

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Allen Frances, born in 1942, is an American psychiatrist with extensive research and contributions in the field of psychiatry, particularly influential in the development of diagnostic and classification standards for mental disorders. more

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