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Regulating psychiatric practice

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.3.296

The trend toward increased regulation of psychiatry and medicine may alleviate some problems but increase others. Some models of practice may achieve monolithic dominance, and maldistribution of practitioners may increase. Covert fantasies about authority, leadership, and peer relations should be borne in mind in the attempt to create an informed, improved regulation of medical practice.

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