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Roast breadfruit psychosis: disturbed racial identification in African–Caribbeans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Frederick W. Hickling*
Affiliation:
Psychotherapy Associates International Ltd., Haverstock House, 81-83 Villa Road, Birmingham B19 1NH
Gerard Hutchinson
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
*
Correspondence
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Footnotes

See invited commentaries pp. 135–138, this issue.

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