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World Service,20 May 2001,24 mins

The Birth Of Clinical Psychology

Health Matters

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A report on the advent of clinical psychology and the influence of Sigmund Freud. How psychology started to be used in medicine and how mental illness became a recognised disease that could be treated.

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