Conversion hysteria: Is it a viable concept?

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-191

  Miller, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 14544289734     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135468099395918     Document Type: Article

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