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The Ganser Syndrome in Singapore: A Report on Ten Gases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Wing Foo Tsoi
Wing Foo Tsoi*
Affiliation:
Woodbridge Hospital Singapore, 19, Republic of Singapore
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The purpose of this paper is to report on ten cases of this uncommon syndrome admitted to Woodbridge Hospital, Singapore, and studied by the author in a systematic way. No attempt will be made to review the literature, as this has already been done recently by Goldin and MacDonald (1955), Enoch and Irving (1962), Enoch et al. (1967) and Whitlock (1967). The Ganser syndrome appears to be getting rarer in the West, as reports in recent literature have usually covered a few cases only: May et al. (1960) reported three cases and Whitlock (1967), six cases.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 576 , November 1973 , pp. 567 - 572
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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