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Perceptual Regulation and Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

N. F. Dixon
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University College, London, W.C.1
T. E. Lear
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University College Hospital, London, W.C.1
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While anomalies of sensory and perceptual responses characterize many mental disorders it is only recently that any serious attempt has been made to investigate them experimentally.

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Psychological
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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