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Stress as a Predictor in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. G. Wallis
G. G. Wallis*
Affiliation:
Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, PO12 2AA
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Reviewers of the literature are unanimous that in schizophrenia the outcome is better in cases where there is a history of stress shortly before the onset of the illness. Zubin et al. (1961) found 89 papers ascribing a favourable prognostic influence to stress and none maintaining that it had a bad or immaterial effect.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 557 , April 1972 , pp. 375 - 384
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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