Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq

Mark A. Turner; Mathew D. Kiernan; Andrew G. McKechanie; Peter J. C. Finch; Frank B. McManus; Leigh A. Neal

doi:10.1192/bjp.186.6.476

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