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Organic Factors in Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Arthur K. Shapiro ,
Elaine Shapiro ,
Henriette Wayne  and
John Clarkin
Arthur K. Shapiro
Affiliation:
Special Studies Laboratory, From the Special Studies Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Pychology, Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital—Cornell University Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, New York, New York 10021
Elaine Shapiro
Affiliation:
From the Special Studies Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Pychology, Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital—Cornell University Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, New York, New York 10021
Henriette Wayne
Affiliation:
From the Special Studies Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Pychology, Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital—Cornell University Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, New York, New York 10021
John Clarkin
Affiliation:
From the Special Studies Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Pychology, Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital—Cornell University Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, New York, New York 10021
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Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome had been considered an organic, often hereditary illness for many years after it was first described in 1885 (1, 2), but when medicine became psychologically oriented, the syndrome was more frequently classified as a psychological illness (3), and patients have been said to be schizophrenic, psychotic, obsessive-compulsive, hysteric, to have inhibited aggression, and eventually to deteriorate intellectually and psychologically. However, no support for common psychopathological and dynamic factors was found in our previous study of 34 patients or in a review of the literature (4). Recently, as medicine has shifted back from a psychological orientation, and as case histories have accumulated, an organic aetiology has been more frequently postulated.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 571 , June 1973 , pp. 659 - 664
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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