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Bereavement

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Colin Murray Parkes
Colin Murray Parkes*
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Academic Department of Psychiatry, The London Hospital Medical College, London E1
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 146 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 11 - 17
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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