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‘Endogenous’ and ‘exogenous’: a useful dichotomy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Aubrey Lewis
Aubrey Lewis
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Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
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Within a few years of their introduction into psychiatry in 1893 the terms ‘endogenous’ and ‘exogenous’ were widely used. The development of the two words and the semantic uncertainty which surrounded them is traced in this article.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , May 1971, pp. 191 - 196
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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