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Ante-Partum Psychosis and Progesterone Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paul J. McMahon
Paul J. McMahon*
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Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge CB1 5EF
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 1 , July 1983 , pp. 95
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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