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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 125, No. 7

Articles | January 01, 1969

Growing Old the Outpatient Way

L. WILLIAM EARLEY; OTTO VON MERING

Am J Psychiatry 1969;125:963-967.

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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

1968-69, American Psychiatric Association

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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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