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A Preliminary Experiment on Paranoid Delusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

M. B. Shapiro
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London
A. T. Ravenette
Affiliation:
County Borough of West Ham

Extract

The object of the experiment to be described in this paper, was to find out if it was possible to develop a systematic experimental investigation of paranoid delusions.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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