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Gotthard Booth, M.D., is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the Schilder Society for Psychotherapy and Psychopathology; Research Assistant of the New York State Psychiatric Institute 1951–61; Charter Fellow of the International Psychosomatic Cancer Study Group; and a member of the Committee on Medicine and Religion of the American Medical Association.
This paper was read before the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis at the New York Academy of Medicine on May 27, 1964.
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Booth, G. Irrational complications of the cancer problem. Am J Psychoanal 25, 41–55 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01872030
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