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The Prevalence of Nail-biting in Normal and Abnormal Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Brian R. Ballinger
Brian R. Ballinger*
Affiliation:
Dundee Psychiatric Service, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Liff, By Dundee
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Many text-books of psychiatry include an inquiry about a history of nail-biting in their scheme of history taking, and if nail-biting is noted when a patient is examined it is often recorded.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 539 , October 1970 , pp. 445 - 446
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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