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Life event stress and psychiatric illness1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Gavin Andrews  and
Christopher Tennant
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , November 1978 , pp. 545 - 549
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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