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Attempted Strangulation During Phenothiazine-Induced Sleep-Walking and Night Terrors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Allan I. F. Scott
Allan I. F. Scott*
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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Abstract

A patient who resumed sleep-walking as an adult is described. The failure to diagnose his disturbed nocturnal behaviour as sleep-walking kept him from his work for over 8 months, and led to a treatment which exacerbated the behaviour. The diagnosis was made when the patient attempted to strangle his wife.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 5 , November 1988 , pp. 692 - 694
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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