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Credit: Hierarchies, lists, many to one, one to many, synonyms, antonyms, eponyms, generics, trade names, ad infinitum. Nothing has enabled free and comprehensive organization of the varied relationships of the terms of behavioral health care until Tim Berners-Lee put hypertext on the computer Internet. Thank you first of all Tim. Thanks also to Linda for making this possible and for the publishers and authors whose contributions are explicitly credited on each page. All definitions and other text not explicitly credited were written by psychiatrist H. Berryman Edwards, MD.



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