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Failure to Convulse with ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Baruch Shapira ,
Seth Kindler  and
Bernard Lerer
Baruch Shapira
Affiliation:
Jerusalem Mental Health Center-Ezrath Nashim PO Box 140 Jerusalem Israel
Seth Kindler
Affiliation:
Jerusalem Mental Health Center-Ezrath Nashim PO Box 140 Jerusalem Israel
Bernard Lerer
Affiliation:
Jerusalem Mental Health Center-Ezrath Nashim PO Box 140 Jerusalem Israel
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 413 - 414
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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