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Chronic fatigue syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

John Joyce  and
Simon Wessely
John Joyce
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College School of Medicine and the Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, England
Simon Wessely
Affiliation:
King's College School of Medicine and theInstitute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, England King's College and Maudsley Hospitals
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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 46 - 50
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