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A Preliminary Experiment on Paranoid Delusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

M. B. Shapiro  and
A. T. Ravenette
M. B. Shapiro
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London
A. T. Ravenette
Affiliation:
County Borough of West Ham
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The object of the experiment to be described in this paper, was to find out if it was possible to develop a systematic experimental investigation of paranoid delusions.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 439 , April 1959 , pp. 295 - 312
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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