The Personality in Psychomotor Epilepsy Compared with the Explosive and Aggressive Personality
- 1 September 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 125 (586) , 221-229
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.125.3.221
Abstract
The diagnosis of the alcoholic personality poses the special problem of differentiating the explosive aggressivity provoked by chronic alcoholism from the personality of certain epileptics.Keywords
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