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Effects of Repetition of Verbal Signals Upon the Behaviour of Chronic Psychoneurotic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

D. Ewen Cameron
Affiliation:
Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, Montreal
Leonard Levy
Affiliation:
Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, Montreal
Leonard Rubenstein
Affiliation:
Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, Montreal

Extract

Studies of the effects of the repetition of statements, i.e., verbal signals, upon the behaviour of chronic psychoneurotic patients have been carried out in the Allan Memorial Institute continuously since 1953 (1).

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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