Is there a link between mental disorder and violence?

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 540-

  Huguelet, Philippe ^a   Perroud, Nader ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PARANOIA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77951773737     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.45     Document Type: Letter

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