Functional visual loss: II. Psychiatric aspects in 42 patients followed for 4 years
- 1 May 1983
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 13 (2) , 315-324
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700050935
Abstract
SYNOPSIS: Forty-two patients with functional visual loss were followed for more than 4 years after presentation. Only 22 patients had a diagnosable psychiatric syndrome or personality disorder at follow-up. Twenty-three patients continued to have findings of functional visual loss at follow-up. Despite continued signs of functional visual loss, few were socially or economically impaired, and 8 of these 23 patients had no evidence of any psychiatric disorder. The implications of these findings are discussed.Keywords
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