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Life Events and Chronic Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

G. W. Brown ,
Z. Adler  and
A. Bifulco
G. W. Brown*
Affiliation:
MRC External Scientific Staff
Z. Adler
Affiliation:
Department of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
A. Bifulco
Affiliation:
Department of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
*
∗Department of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London), 11 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 4 , April 1988 , pp. 487 - 498
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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