Functional visual loss: I. A true psuchiatric disorder?
- 1 May 1983
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 13 (2) , 307-314
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700050923
Abstract
SYNOPSIS: A review of the literature describing patients with functional visual loss reveals that a significant proportion of them do not manifest psychiatric disease as defined by current nomenclature. Apparently, these individuals are highly suggestible and do not necessarily have psychological pathology. The ramifications of this finding are discussed.Keywords
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