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Delusion of inanimate doubles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. F. Signer*
Affiliation:
Royal Ottawa Hospital, 1145 Carling, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Z 7K4
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Abstract

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Correspondence
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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