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The Psychology of Policy Making and Social Change

The Thirty-Eighth Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 15 November, 1963

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Geoffrey Vickers
Geoffrey Vickers*
Affiliation:
V.C., Little Mead, Goring-on-Thames, Reading, Berks
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I am grateful to those who have included me in the honourable company of Maudsley Lecturers. When you invite a speaker from outside psychiatry, I think you hope to find one who will speak from his own central interest and experience in a way which will illuminate your own. After some inner debate, I decided that I would try to justify that expectation, even though my experience may seem remote from yours. I hope none the less that what I have to say may have some relevance to some of the sciences on which you rely, perhaps even to your profession.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 467 , July 1964 , pp. 465 - 477
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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