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Dilemmas in psychiatry*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Aubrey Lewis
Aubrey Lewis*
Affiliation:
Lately of the Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Professor Michael Shepherd, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF.
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Extract

Socrates said that it was the duty of teachers to be gad-flies, stirring people up, irritating them rather, but perhaps serving a useful purpose on the way. I propose therefore to present some of the unsettling and disturbing issues which psychiatrists encounter in their day-to-day work.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , August 1991 , pp. 581 - 585
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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Footnotes

*

This hitherto unpublished article by Sir Aubrey Lewis (lately of the Institute of Psychiatry) was originally written in 1961 at the request of the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean as one of a Mental Health Report series.

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* This hitherto unpublished article by Sir Aubrey Lewis (lately of the Institute of Psychiatry) was originally written in 1961 at the request of the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean as one of a Mental Health Report series.