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The fictive personality revisited

Psychiatric admission as a consequence of Princess Diana's death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jill Chaloner*
Affiliation:
Warley Hospital, Brentwood, Essex CM14 5HQ
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A 45-year-old woman with no previous psychiatric history had three psychiatric in-patient admissions with symptoms of suicidal ideation and depression which she attributed solely to the effect on her of Princess Diana's death.

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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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