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The Psychiatric Service at Birmingham University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Inga Maclay
Inga Maclay*
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University of Birmingham
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In recent years the mental health of British university undergraduates has aroused considerable interest. The findings of Parnell (1951) at Oxford, Davy (1957 and 1960) at Cambridge, Malleson (1958) at University College, London, and Juel-Jensen (1962) at Oxford indicate that up to 20 per cent. of students suffer psychiatric disturbances of sufficient degree to constitute a handicap in their daily life. Furthermore, mental ill-health is one of the most important reasons why undergraduates lose time from their studies or withdraw from university altogether. Read (1954) stressed the advantages of the psychiatric service for students at the London School for Economics.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 496 , March 1967 , pp. 329 - 330
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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