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Report of the General Psychiatry Section Working Party on Post-Natal Mental Illness

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The Working Party was formed under the aegis of the General Psychiatry Section of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, with the following membership: Professor John Cox – Keele University (Chairman); Dr Channi Kumar – Institute of Psychiatry, London; Dr Margaret Oates – Senior Lecturer, Consultant, University of Nottingham; Dr David Foreman – Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Senior Research Fellow, Keele University, Staffordshire; and Dr Helen Anderson – Consultant Psychiatrist, Bellsdyke Hospital, Larbert (Secretary).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 8 , August 1992 , pp. 519 - 522
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