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A Submerged Site of Therapeutic Endeavour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Le Gassicke*
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital, Morpeth, Northumberland
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In the Second World War there was a Royal Naval Unit for the assessment and rehabilitation of personality disorders in a remote part of the Cheviot Hills. The site is now submerged in the Kielder Reservoir.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982

References

1 Coulter, J. L. S. (1954) Royal Naval Medical Services, Vol. 1 (Administration), 10, 151–54. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
2 Prewer, R. R. (1945) The Kielder experiment. Journal of Mental Science, 91, 481–94.Google Scholar
3 Royal College of Psychiatrists (1981) Secure Facilities for Psychiatric Patients: A Comprehensive Policy, pp 89.Google Scholar
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