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Psychiatry in the United Kingdom

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.12.1790

The author sketches the current state of British psychiatry under the National Health Service, describes the changes produced by the Mental Health Act of 1959, and reports on the 1969 annual meeting of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain.

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