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Beyond the water tower: current demands upon consultant psychiatrists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew Sims
Andrew Sims*
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Royal College of Psychiatrists; University of Leeds
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“There they stand, isolated, majestic, imperious, brooded over by the gigantic water tower … the asylums which our forefathers built with such immense solidity to express the notions of their day. Do not for a moment underestimate their powers of resistance to our assault” (Enoch Powell, 1961).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , June 1992 , pp. 321 - 324
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