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Aetiological Factors in Young Schizophrenic Men

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. J. Costello ,
J. C. Gunn  and
J. Dominian
A. J. Costello
Affiliation:
London, S.E.5, now at the Medical Research Council Unit for the Study of Environmental Factors in Mental and Physical Illness, London School of Economics
J. C. Gunn
Affiliation:
Now at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, S.E.5
J. Dominian
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, now Consultant Psychiatrist, The Central Middlesex Hospital, N.W.10, and Shenley Hospital
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Extract

Schizophrenia still offers the psychiatrist one of his greatest challenges, in spite of the volume of research that has been lavished on it, and the many important therapeutic improvements that have been achieved.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 509 , April 1968 , pp. 433 - 441
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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