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Pain and the Psychiatrist

The Thirty-Ninth Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 20th November, 1964

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Erwin Stengel*
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield

Extract

I am sincerely grateful for the honour you have bestowed on me by the invitation to deliver this year's Maudsley Lecture. It means all the more to me as this Association made me feel at home almost from the day I came to this country more than twenty-six years ago.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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