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Retraction Note: Sacred psychiatry in ancient Greece

Annals of General Psychiatry volume 13, Article number: 30 (2014) Cite this article

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This article [1] has been retracted by the authors due to overlap in text with a number of publications, most notably those by Kirmayer, Milns, Crivellato and Ribatti, Ntafoulis et al., Kaufman, Fornaro et al., and Simon [2]-[8].

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  1. Second Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens, Attikon Hospital, 1 Rimini str, Athens, 12462, Greece

    Georgios Tzeferakos & Athanasios Douzenis

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  1. Georgios Tzeferakos
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Tzeferakos, G., Douzenis, A. Retraction Note: Sacred psychiatry in ancient Greece. Ann Gen Psychiatry 13, 30 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12991-014-0030-2

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