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Book Title: Clinical Psychiatry: A Text-Book for Students and Physicians
Topic: Social_Science, Psychology
Genre: Classics
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: America
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Intended Audience: Adults
Personalize: No
Inscribed: No
Ex Libris: No
Personalized: No
Signed: No
Number of Pages: 620 Pages
Publication Name: Clinical Psychiatry : A Text-Book for Students and Physicians, Abstracted and Adapted from the Seventh German; Edition of Kraepelin's German Edition of Kraepelin's Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie (Classic Reprint)
Language: English
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Subject: General
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 28.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Psychology, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Author: A. Ross Diefendorf
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
