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Obesity and neurosis

A case report

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  1. New York Hospital, New York, N. Y.

    Henry B. Richardson M. D.

  2. Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York, N. Y.

    Henry B. Richardson M. D.

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Richardson, H.B. Obesity and neurosis. Psych Quar 20, 400–424 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574331

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