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A Case of Resistant Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. E. Roberts ,
J. G. Edwards ,
S. Checkley ,
J. L. Crammer ,
J. C. Cutting ,
M. H. Lader  and
R. M. Murray
J. E. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Addiction Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry
J. G. Edwards
Affiliation:
Addiction Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry
S. Checkley
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals
J. L. Crammer
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
J. C. Cutting
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals
M. H. Lader
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
R. M. Murray
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals
*
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AZ, UK
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Abstract

In an era when it is generally believed that the acute Symptoms of schizophrenia can be controlled pharmacologically, the case of a young man who has remained almost continuously floridly psychotic for 13 years, despite treatment, is disquieting. Conventional psychiatrie treatment appears to be rendered impotent. It is in this context that it may be of interest to report a summary of the proceedings of a Special Problems Conference held at the Institute of Psychiatry on 18 February 1985 to discuss such a case.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 6 , December 1986 , pp. 789 - 793
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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