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Psychotherapy and National Health Insurance

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.3.267

Many of the legislative proposals for national health insurance fail to include or severely limit coverage of psychiatric services. The author advances a number of arguments for covering these services, including psychoanalysis, and makes suggestions aimed at a more equitable distribution of psychiatric care under national health insurance.

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