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Contemporary community psychiatry

Where is the therapy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John L. Cox*
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Department of Psychiatry, School of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele University, North Staffordshire Hospital, Thornburrow Drive, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7QB
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When invited to give the Maxwell Jones lecture as part of the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrations of the Henderson Hospital I was pleased and honoured, as well as somewhat surprised. I welcomed the opportunity to pay tribute to an outstanding social psychiatrist and to reflect on a decade of turbulent change within mental health services.

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