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Fertility in Obsessional Neurosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. H. Hare ,
J. S. Price  and
E. T. O. Slater
E. H. Hare
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and The Maudsley Hospitals, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
J. S. Price
Affiliation:
The Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
E. T. O. Slater
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London, S.E.5
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Extract

Obsessional neurosis, inasfar as it comes to the attention of the psychiatrist, is a comparatively rare disorder, comprising not more than about 3 per cent of all cases of neurosis. Its rarity is reflected in the fact that the largest series so far described, that of Pollitt (1957), consisted of only 150 cases, though a limited amount of information has been available from the somewhat larger series of the Bethlem-Maudsley Hospital (Blacker and Gore, 1955) and of the Registrar General (1964).

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 561 , August 1972 , pp. 197 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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