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The Behavioural Treatment of Hysteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Julian Bird
Julian Bird*
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The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 134 , Issue 2 , February 1979 , pp. 129 - 137
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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