Prospects on Psychiatric Research
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This book is the proceedings of the Oxford Conference held in March 1952 by the Mental Health Research Fund, to which were invited leading figures of the various disciplines concerned with research on mental health. These included naturally a high proportion of psychiatrists of different schoo's but the discussion centred on ignorances in the anatomical field was opened by professors of anatomy and of neuropathology; on those in the
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دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1953