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Small Caps type indicates terms defined as main entries elsewhere in this glossary.
Adapted from Shahrokh NC, Hales RE (eds): American Psychiatric Glossary, 8th Edition (Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2003); Shahrokh NC, Hales RE, Phillips KA, Yudofsky SC (eds): The Language of Mental Health: A Glossary of Psychiatric Terms (Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2011); and American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (Arlington, VA, American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Copyright © American Psychiatric Publishing. Used with permission.

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