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Mental illness and the continuum of residential stability

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Breakey, W.R., Fischer, P.J. Mental illness and the continuum of residential stability. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 30, 147–151 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00790651

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