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Learning and Human Development

The Forty-second Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 17th November, 1967

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. D. B. Clarke*
Affiliation:
The University of Hull, Yorkshire

Extract

Last December I received one of the most surprising letters of my life—an invitation to give the next Maudsley Lecture before this Association. I am deeply grateful for this honour, all the more so since I stand in considerable debt to the hospital which Henry Maudsley founded and which bears his name, having spent two fruitful years there as a research student.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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