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The Psychological Management of Psychosomatic Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Oscar Hill
Oscar Hill*
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The Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , August 1977 , pp. 113 - 126
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1977 

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