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Writer's Cramp in a Deaf 12-year-old Girl

A Conversion Reaction?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. M. Georgui
M. M. Georgui*
Affiliation:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Borocourt Hospital, Reading, now Consultant, Child and Family Service, Bedford House, Havelock Place, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 4PR
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Abstract

An unusual case of writer's cramp in a 12-year-old deaf girl is reported. Possible aetiological and contributing factors in her environment are discussed, with particular relevance to a hysterical conversion reaction.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 3 , March 1988 , pp. 414 - 416
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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