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Failure to convulse with ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Garry Walter
Garry Walter*
Affiliation:
The Northside Clinic Sydney Australia
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 5 , May 1991 , pp. 716
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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