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Childhood Bereavement and Psychiatric Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Constance M. Dennehy
Constance M. Dennehy*
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King's College Hospital, Royal Free Hospital
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The accidental event of childhood bereavement by death of a parent, and its possible importance in the later development of psychiatric illness, has been under study in recent years. It is a truism to state that, in the present organization of European society, such an event is a catastrophe, but whether bereavement is an event of aetiological importance in mental illness has not yet been decided.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 491 , October 1966 , pp. 1049 - 1069
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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