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The Relationship of Psychiatric, Psychosomatic and Organic Illness in a General Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Norman Kreitman ,
K. I. Pearce  and
A. Ryle
Norman Kreitman
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
K. I. Pearce
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
A. Ryle
Affiliation:
The Caversham Centre, London, N.W.5
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The main aim of this investigation is to determine whether patients with psychiatric illness have more somatic illness than those who are psychiatrically well, and conversely, whether those who have more than an average amount of physical sickness also suffer from an excess of psychiatric disability. A subsidiary purpose is to determine how much “psychosomatic” illness occurs in association with physical and with mental illness.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 487 , June 1966 , pp. 569 - 579
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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