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Chinese and English Psychiatric Nurses' Attitudes on Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Graham Thornicroft  and
Tom Trauer
Graham Thornicroft
Affiliation:
Registrar, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 (correspondence)
Tom Trauer
Affiliation:
District Clinical Psychologist, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5
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In parallel with more open political access for Westerners to China over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of interest in Chinese psychiatry. The pre- and post-liberation developments of the specialty have been reviewed. Further, increasingly detailed and balanced first-hand accounts by Western psychiatrists of visits to Chinese facilities have appeared.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , March 1987 , pp. 87 - 89
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