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Autobiographies of Former Mental Patients Addendum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Robert Sommer  and
Humphry Osmond
Robert Sommer
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada
Humphry Osmond
Affiliation:
The Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn, Sask., Canada
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 451 , November 1961 , pp. 1030 - 1032
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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