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A Further Experimental Study of Using Perceptual Errors As an Aid to Diagnosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

D. Walton
D. Walton*
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Rainhill Hospital, Near Liverpool, and Winwick Hospital, Warrington
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Some neurotic patients exhibit such a complex symptomatology that it is often difficult to determine, by present methods, which problems or areas of difficulty are fundamental. Much time may therefore be lost through the treatment of superficial rather than basic sources of difficulty.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 432 , July 1957 , pp. 556 - 580
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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