Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum
A woman in the care of the author 40 years ago was reported to have been sleeping for 2 days. We treated her condition as conversion hysteria. Her private psychiatrist was the renowned R. D. Laing; he was unhappy with our line of management, on the grounds of the arbitrariness of the diagnosis, the...
Main Author: | Manohar Dhadphale |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2016-11-01
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Series: | BJPsych International |
Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474000001458/type/journal_article |
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