Birmingham Confers on Psychotic Children
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LAST October the Birmingham Association for Mental Health held a one-d; Conference on "The Psychotic Child" which met with such an enthusiaf response that it had to move its meeting place to the larger hall at the Univers1' which was packed with over 600 people. The current keen interest in the subF itself and the imposing names on the programme combined to attract staff ff? child guidance clinics, and from children's departments, teachers and others concert
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