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Psychiatric Problems of Haemodialysis: Their Treatment by Hypnosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David L. Scott*
Affiliation:
Whiston Hospital, Prescot, Lancashire L35 5DR

Extract

Renal dialysis has been a life-saving miracle for the ‘chosen few‘, but has created major moral, social, financial, psychological and interpersonal problems.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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