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Comments on 'Slowly Progressive Schizophrenia’ by A. B. Smulevitch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Bronislava Shafran
Affiliation:
3450 Wayne Avenue (Nr 15A), Bronx, New York 10467, USA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, USA
Harold Merskey*
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario; London Psychiatric Hospital, 850 Highbury Avenue, PO Box 2532, Terminal ‘A’, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4H1
Boris Zoubok
Affiliation:
16 Dakin Avenue, Mount Kisco, New York 10549, USA
*
Correspondence

Extract

In the preceding translation we tried to provide a literal rendering of the complete original article, changing it only for purposes of clarity or comprehensibility. We now offer our own judgements of the content of the article. We have made them short because we believe most of the problems with the article by Smulevitch will be readily evident to anyone who normally has access to the British Journal of Psychiatry, and who may compare our original article (Merskey & Shafran, 1986) with the content of the Smulevitch one.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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