From Rationalization to Reason

SEY MOUR S. KETYAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131, Number 9

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.9.957

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The author reminds the profession that psychiatry is a branch of medicine, that psychiatrists are physicians especially equipped to treat mental illness, and that the medical model of mental illness is valid, heuristic, and humanitarian. He presents new data bearing on the reliability of the diagnosis of schizophrenic illness and the importance of genetic factors in the transmission of that syndrome, arguing that the medical model is as appropriate for the major psychoses as it is for diabetes.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131 • Number 9 • September 1974

Pages: 957 - 963

PubMed: 4413516

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Published in print: September 1974

Published online: 12 February 2015

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SEY MOUR S. KETY

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., and Director, Psychiatric Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02114

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