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Late Paraphrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. E. Herbert
Affiliation:
St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex
S. Jacobson
Affiliation:
St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, and Brighton and Lewes Group

Extract

An editorial in the British Medical Journal in 1962 drew attention to the fact that research workers have taken relatively little interest in the psychoses of the elderly. The editorial commented on the important paper by Kay and Roth (1961), which analysed the condition known as “late paraphrenia”. Since the publication of this editorial, no significant contribution has been added to the analysis of this illness.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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