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Case 18 - The man who couldn’t stop hitting people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2021

By
Angharad Ames  and
Lawrence Faziola
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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Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology , pp. 197 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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