Obsessive slowness revisited.

Ratnasuriya, R H; Marks, I M; Forshaw, D M; Hymas, N F · Br J Psychiatry · 1991

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Abstract

Of 665 patients referred between 1969 and 1984 for behavioural treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, 22 had marked slowness not due to washing, which was secondary to mental or overt rituals or ruminations. Over 90% of the slowness cases were male, and over a quarter had pre-natal or delivery problems.

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