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Behaviour Therapy of Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. F. Clark
D. F. Clark*
Affiliation:
Area Psychological Service, Leicester; Ladysbridge Hospital, Banff, Scotland
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Eighty years ago Gilles de la Tourette (1885) described the syndrome which has become eponymous. It has been usual to consider it as a relatively rare constellation of symptoms, sometimes the concern of the neurologist, sometimes of the psychiatrist; but in recent years three papers (Bockner, 1959; MacDonald, 1963; Polites, Kruger and Stevenson, 1965) discussing the syndrome and its treatment have appeared in British journals alone. All comment on the infrequency of the syndrome, but one does suggest that it may be less infrequent than has been thought in the past.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 489 , August 1966 , pp. 771 - 778
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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