Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 3 , Pages 200-205 , May 2005

Pfropfschizophrenia in the age of deinstitutionalization: whose problem?

  • Sara Catinari

      Affiliations

    • Research Department, Ezrath Nashim-Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem 91351, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Women's Psychiatry Division, Ezrath Nashim-Herzog Memorial Hospital, PO Box 35300, Jerusalem 91351, Israel. Tel.: +972 2 531 6906; fax: +972 2 653 6075.
    • ,
  • Agnes Vass

      Affiliations

    • Research Department, Ezrath Nashim-Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem 91351, Israel
    • Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
    • ,
  • Marina Ermilov

      Affiliations

    • Research Department, Ezrath Nashim-Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem 91351, Israel
    • Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
    • ,
  • Uriel Heresco-Levy

      Affiliations

    • Research Department, Ezrath Nashim-Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem 91351, Israel
    • Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel

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PII: S0010-440X(04)00135-X

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.08.004

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 3 , Pages 200-205 , May 2005

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