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Case 11 - The man who thinks it’s the end of the world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2021

By
Erin Fletcher ,
Evagelos Coskinas  and
Phuong Vo
Edited by
Takesha Cooper ,
Gerald Maguire  and
Stephen Stahl
Takesha Cooper
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Gerald Maguire
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Stephen Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Pretest self-assessment question (answer at the end of the case)

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Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology , pp. 115 - 126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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