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The Social State

A proposed new element in the standard psychiatric assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

P. G. Campbell  and
G. I. Szmukler
P. G. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust & Friern Hospital
G. I. Szmukler
Affiliation:
Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne
*
West Hampstead Day Hospital, 85–87 Fordwych Road, London NW2 3TL
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As psychiatry broadens its perspective beyond a predominantly hospital focus, the tools of its trade need some reshaping to serve the needs of an altered working environment. The instrument indispensable to every psychiatrist is the scheme for assessment, comprising history-taking and examination of the mental (and physical) state. Honed by long familiarity and usage, its employment is the fundamental skill demanded of aspirants to medical practice and to psychiatry.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 4 - 7
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