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Tarasoff and the duty to warn third parties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mark Turner  and
Michael Kennedy
Mark Turner*
Affiliation:
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry
Michael Kennedy
Affiliation:
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry
*
∗Correspondence
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 8 , August 1997 , pp. 465 - 466
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