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Psychiatric Illness in the Mothers of School-Phobic Adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ian Berg ,
Alan Butler  and
Janice Pritchard
Ian Berg
Affiliation:
High Lands Adolescent Unit, Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorks., University of Leeds
Alan Butler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Leeds University, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, 2
Janice Pritchard
Affiliation:
University of York, Heslington, York
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Extract

This paper reports a study of maternal psychiatric illness in school-phobic adolescents admitted to a psychiatric in-patient unit. These cases have been previously described and studied in various ways (Berg, Nichols and Pritchard, 1969; Berg, 1970; Berg and McGuire, 1971; Berg, Butler and McGuire, 1972; Berg and McGuire, 1974).

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 588 , November 1974 , pp. 466 - 467
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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