Mineral metabolism, mania, and melancholia.
BMJPublished 30 July 1966Open access
DavidMurray Shaw
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In Battle for the Mind and other papers I have tried to summarize all the research that brought me to the conclusion that psychotherapeutic techniques creating faith and increasing suggestibility in the normal can indeed make such people believe that they are even able to move mountains.
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