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The difficult patient

The role of ‘scientific psychiatry’ in understanding patients with chronic schizophrenia or severe personality disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. D. Hinshelwood*
Affiliation:
Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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