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Bowel obsessions responsive to tricyclic antidepressants in four patients
M A Jenike1, H L Vitagliano, J Rabinowitz
1Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Clinic and Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
The authors report on four patients with disabling bowel obsessions who responded to tricyclic antidepressant medication despite the absence of depressive symptoms. The relationship of this symptom constellation to DSM-III obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia is discussed.