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The Relationship between Delusions of Sexual Change and Olfactory and Gustatory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. H. Connolly
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield S6 1TP
N. L. Gittleson
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield S6 1TP

Extract

Doubt about one's sexual identity and ideas of changing sex have been shown to be typical of sufferers from schizophrenia (Gittleson and Levine, 1966; Gittleson and Dawson-Butterworth, 1967).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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