Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists: Volume 8 -

Beginning Psychiatry
Geoff Adams, Marilyn A. Cook
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02 January 2018, pp. 53-54
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Most people come into psychiatry from behind the white coat of more technologically orientated medicine. In psychiatry, with its slower pace and greater intimacy, it is seen as more important to consider the patients' feelings and there is time to do so. But here one's role is less clearly defined and assumptions carried over about the relation of the junior doctor to other staff may be inappropriate.

Saskatchewan Secure Unit
Martin G. Livingston
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02 January 2018, pp. 155-156
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The British approach to administrative problems is often to accumulate more and more evidence for changes which are obsolete before enaction. Such a fate seems likely to happen to plans for the management of the psychiatrically disturbed offender following several reports. It was interesting, therefore, this summer to work as a locum consultant in a Saskatchewan forensic psychiatric hospital.

Community Care: The Sham Behind the Slogan: National Schizophrenia Fellowship
Joyce Major
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02 January 2018, pp. 112-113
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The following letter and statement were published on 28 February 1984 and were widely circulated to influential bodies.

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