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What Will be the Psychiatric Consequences of the War in Bosnia?

A bad war from the psychiatric point of view, leading to hidden pathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

L. Stephen O'Brien
L. Stephen O'Brien*
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Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, London SE18 4QH
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 164 , Issue 4 , April 1994 , pp. 443 - 447
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Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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