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Psychosurgery

Controversy and enquiry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. P. Snaith
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue 5 , November 1994 , pp. 582 - 584
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994 

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