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Psychogenic Episodes in the Course of Major Psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

E. W. Anderson
Affiliation:
Psychiatrist to the Devon County Council
W. P. Mallinson
Affiliation:
late Assistant Medical Officer at the Maudsley Hospital

Extract

This paper is concerned with the occurrence in three cases of a major psychosis of more or less circumscribed and apparently psychogenic episodes similar to those described by Ganser (1897), and which form a characteristic syndrome, since called after him. Two of the cases here described were endogenous depressions, the third was a schizophrenia. All three showed depersonalization.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1941 

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