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PRiSM Psychosis Study

Thro'a glass darkly: a distorted appraisal of community care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

S. P. Sashidharan*
Affiliation:
Academic Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
Marcellino Smyth
Affiliation:
Academic Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
Andrew Owen
Affiliation:
Academic Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
*
Professor S. Sashidharan, Academic Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust, 71 Fentham Road, Birmingham B23 6AL
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Abstract

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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Footnotes

See pp. 501–503 and 508–513. this issue.

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