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Acute Stress and Psychiatric Breakdown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John A. Harrington*
Affiliation:
Uffculme Clinic, Queensbridge Road, Birmingham, 13
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The investigation reported compares a group of patients in whom the onset of psychiatric illness was associated with acute environmental stress with another group of patients of similar age and sex in whom no such precipitating stresses were found. The aims were to see what differences, if any, were apparent between the two groups.

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