Psychiatric illness in patients referred to a dermatology-psychiatry clinic

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-35

  Woodruff, P W R ^a,c   Higgins, E M ^a   Du Vivier, A W P ^b   Wessely, S ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIAISON PSYCHIATRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSION; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031055895     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-8343(97)00155-2     Document Type: Article

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