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Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: An Anglo-American Comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Guy Edwards
Guy Edwards*
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University of Southampton Medical School, Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hampshire
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During recent years interest in transcultural psychiatry, particularly Anglo-American differences in diagnostic practice and treatment, has increased considerably. In 1965 Willis and Bannister reported the results of a questionnaire study of the opinion of 'senior’ British psychiatrists on the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. Acknowledging the many disadvantages of a postal enquiry of this kind, the present author thought that their study would form the basis for a useful and relatively inexpensive Anglo-American comparison. Consequently, in 1968 an almost identical questionnaire was circulated to six hundred 'senior’ American psychiatrists.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 557 , April 1972 , pp. 385 - 390
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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