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Folie à Deux in Identical Twins: Interaction of Nature and Nurture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Arthur Lazarus
Arthur Lazarus*
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Temple University Health Sciences Centre, 3401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19140, USA
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 3 , March 1986 , pp. 324 - 326
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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