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Adult Psychiatric Patients on whom Information was Recorded during Childhood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. W. Mellsop
G. W. Mellsop*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, 3050, Australia
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It is widely believed that knowledge of an adult patient's childhood is of great assistance in understanding the development of his illness. It has been thought that with advances in the understanding of psychogenesis of illnesses, where this is a major pathogenetic mechanism, it would eventually be possible to predict specifically who will develop which particular adult illness; a further hope would be that these adult illnesses could then be prevented.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 577 , December 1973 , pp. 703 - 710
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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