Video

‘Acting out’ or pathological?

Current Psychiatry. 2015 January;14(1)
By
Jon E. Grant, JD, MD
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Jon E. Grant, JD, MD, MPH, talks about how to distinguish “acting out” from an impulse-control disorder.

 

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