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Psychogenic Headache and the Localization of the Ego

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

N. L. Gittleson
N. L. Gittleson*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Victoria University of Manchester
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Extract

Headache alone is estimated to be the chief and central complaint of eight million people (8). In one series of five hundred cases only ninety-six were found to have an organic basis (4).

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 452 , January 1962 , pp. 47 - 52
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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