Growing Old the Outpatient Way

L. WILLIAM EARLEY and OTTO VON MERINGAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125, Number 7

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.7.963

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The authors describe a group of patients in an outpatient clinic who present many diffuse illness symptoms and who pass from one physician to another over a long period of time without noticeable progress. By so doing, such patients manage to create a secondary world in which they play out a great number of problems they have projected.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125 • Number 7 • January 1969

Pages: 963 - 967

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Published in print: January 1969

Published online: 1 April 2006

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L. WILLIAM EARLEY

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OTTO VON MERING

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Professor of psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213

Professor of anthropology, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213

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Growing Old the Outpatient Way

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