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Supervised discharge – paper tiger?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Frank Holloway
Frank Holloway*
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Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , April 1996 , pp. 193 - 194
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