'The bowerbird symptom': A case of severe hoarding of possessions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 597-600

  Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a DANDENONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collecting; Hoarding; Obsessive compulsive disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALE; OBSESSION; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0030864668     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679709065083     Document Type: Article

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