Childhood Bereavement and Psychiatric Illness
- 1 October 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 112 (491) , 1049-1069
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.112.491.1049
Abstract
The accidental event of childhood bereavement by death of a parent, and its possible importance in the later development of psychiatric illness, has been under study in recent years. It is a truism to state that, in the present organization of European society, such an event is a catastrophe, but whether bereavement is an event of aetiological importance in mental illness has not yet been decided.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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