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Observations on the Occurrence of an Ethnic Element in Involutional Melancholia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. Gibson
R. Gibson*
Affiliation:
Northumberland County Mental Hospital
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In the development of involutional melancholia a variety of causes have from time to time been implicated, ranging from glandular upset of ovarian or pituitary origin to the stress of air-raids. In the bulk of cases the pathogenesis would appear to depend on the interaction of a constellation of predisposing and precipitating factors. In the present study a tentative attempt has been made to indicate a possible ethnic element in the aetiology of this psychosis.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 89 , Issue 375 , April 1943 , pp. 274 - 277
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1943 

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