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Unpredictability as a Correlate of Expressed Emotion in the Relatives of Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. MacCarthy*
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
D. R. Hemsley
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
C. Shrank-Fernandez
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
L. Kuipers
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
R. Katz
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
*
Correspondence

Abstract

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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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