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The Sick Child

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Elinor Kapp
Elinor Kapp*
Affiliation:
St Cadoc's Hospital Caerleon, Gwent NP6 1XQ
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The greatest unnameable fear for all of us who are parents is that of losing a child. We hear about it in others, we read about it in the papers and a cold chill touches us. The most common deaths are sudden in accidents but many parents have to cope with the long drawn-out trauma, alternating hope and fear, of sickness. No-one can ever know if or when or where they may experience the policeman at the door or the embarrassed compassion in the doctor's face.

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Psychiatry in Art
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , March 1996 , pp. 167 - 168
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996
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