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The report of a working party of the fourth Collegiate Trainees' Committee

The public image of psychiatry – a pilot study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dinesh Bhugra  and
Jan Scott
Dinesh Bhugra
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ (correspondence)
Jan Scott
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 6 , June 1989 , pp. 330 - 333
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