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New community mental health law: the conditional discharge model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Philip Sugarman
Philip Sugarman*
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Kent Forensic Psychiatry Service, Trevor Gibbens Unit, Hermitage Lane, Maidstone, Kent ME16 9QQ
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , April 1999 , pp. 195 - 198
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