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The Ganser State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

S. Goldin  and
J. E. Macdonald
J. E. Macdonald
Affiliation:
Runwell Hospital, near Wickford, Essex
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The aim of this paper is threefold:

  1. (i) To review critically the literature on the Ganser State and clarify its meaning.

  2. (ii) To provide a case illustration with some hitherto unreported features.

  3. (iii) To present psychological test results, which has not previously been done in a case of this kind.

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Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 101 , Issue 423 , April 1955 , pp. 267 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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