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Why should psychiatrists be concerned with equality? We are not accustomed to including inequality as a determinant of psychic well- or ill-being. We tend to think on other levels, e.g., the intrapsychic or the biological, and in so doing, assume that we are dealing with universal factors.
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Miller, J.B. (1978). The Effects of Inequality on Psychology. In: Rieker, P.P., Carmen, E. (eds) The Gender Gap in Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4754-5_4
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