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Psychosomatic Eye Disorders
Author(s) -
TrevorRoper Patrick D.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
australian journal of opthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 0310-1177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1976.tb00852.x
Subject(s) - psychogenic disease , medicine , psychiatry , optometry , psychology , ophthalmology
S ummary M ost presenting symptoms in ophthalmology, as in general medicine, are largely or wholly psychogenic; and the patient's range from the common neurotics, with their eyestrain, through the hysterics and malingerers to the frank psychotic with his hallucinations and self‐mutilations.