Obsessions and Delusions: Separate and Distinct, or Overlapping?

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 58-61

  Bermanzohn, Paul C ^a   Porto, Linda ^a   Arlow, Phyllis B ^a   Axelrod, Sylvia ^a   Stronger, Roslyn ^a   Martino Beyer, Jeannette ^a   Pollack, Simcha ^b   Siris, Samuel G ^a  

^a Hillside Hospital   (Jamaica)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0344240661     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: 21656509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1092852900004636     Document Type: Article

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