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Catatonia: the tension insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Wai-Yu Joseph
Wai-Yu Joseph*
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Tokanui Hospital, Private Bag, Te Awamutu, New Zealand
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 163 , Issue 5 , November 1993 , pp. 696
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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