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The Human Brain and Political Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hugh Freeman
Hugh Freeman*
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University of Salford; Salford Health Authority; Editor, British Journal of Psychiatry, 17 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PG
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“I think you ought to leave your head to the College of Surgeons to ascertain what wonderful impressionable substance it contains instead of brains” (G. B. Shaw to a correspondent, 1926).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 1 , July 1991 , pp. 19 - 32
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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