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Morbidity in the Community of Schizophrenic Patients Discharged from London Mental Hospitals in 1959

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. K. Wing
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unity Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
Elizabeth Monck
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unity Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
G. W. Brown
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unity Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
G. M. Carstairs
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Extract

This paper describes the social and clinical progress of a group of male schizophrenic patients who left London mental hospitals during 1959 and were followed up for one year. The study was designed to test specific hypotheses concerning the association between family relationships and the course of the patient's illness (Brown et al., 1962).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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