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The early years
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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By 1841, advances in communication and education, coupled with an increasing number of medical staff attached to mental asylums, made the idea of a formal grouping of such asylum staff a viable proposition. Although, as the following paragraphs indicate, such a group took many years to become established, the body whose early years are described briefly here, is the direct ancestor of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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- Sketches from the History of Psychiatry
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991
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