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Transcultural Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Roland Littlewood
Roland Littlewood*
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All Saints Hospital, Lodge Road, Birmingham B18 5SD
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 147 , Issue 1 , July 1985 , pp. 93
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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