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Schneiderian First-Rank Symptoms Caused by Benzodiazepine Withdrawal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Keith Roberts  and
Neil Vass
Keith Roberts*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Psychological Medicine, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH
Neil Vass
Affiliation:
St. Thomas' Hospital, London SEI 7EH
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Benzodiazepine withdrawal has been found to give rise to numerous physical and psychological symptoms. This paper describes, for the first time, Schneiderian first-rank symptoms of schizophrenia caused by such withdrawal.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 5 , May 1986 , pp. 593 - 594
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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