Of Mania: Introduction

@article{Berrios2004OfMI,
  title={Of Mania: Introduction},
  author={German E. Berrios},
  journal={History of Psychiatry},
  year={2004},
  volume={15},
  pages={105 - 124},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144834866}
}
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