Psychiatric and behavioral correlates of factitious blindness

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-162

  Feldman, Marc D ^a   Eisendrath, Stuart J ^b   Tyerman, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Guide Dogs   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EYE EXAMINATION; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; BLINDNESS; FACTITIOUS DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38749095879     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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