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Schizophrenia: yesterday's concept

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

I Brockington*
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, B15 2QUK

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1992

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