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Diminished Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John R. Hamilton
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 138 , Issue 5 , May 1981 , pp. 434 - 436
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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