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Some Psychiatric Non-Sequelae of Childhood Bereavement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Alistair Munro
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
A. B. Griffiths
Affiliation:
Naburn Hospital, York

Extract

This article presents the results of a study initiated by the late G. R. Hargreaves, Nuffield Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Leeds.

Type
The Family as Background: Environmentally and Genetically
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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