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Psychotic panic and feared sexual assault – ‘homosexual panic’: the historical role of feared homosexual assault as a contributing factor to self-attack

Mark J GoldblattHarvard Medical School, Psychiatry Department, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Boston Suicide Study Group, Cambridge, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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John T MaltsbergerHarvard Medical School, Psychiatry Department, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Boston Suicide Study Group, Lexington, MA, USAView further author information
Pages 114-117 | Received 09 May 2016, Accepted 28 Nov 2016, Published online: 07 Mar 2017

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