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Interpersonal violence, especially violence experienced by children, is the largest single preventable cause of mental illness. What cigarette smoking is to the rest of medicine, early childhood violence is to psychiatry.
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Vetere, A. (2011). Children Who Witness Violence at Home. In: Rapley, M., Moncrieff, J., Dillon, J. (eds) De-Medicalizing Misery. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230342507_9
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