Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 1 , Pages 34-37 , January 2005

Quality of life in kleptomania and pathological gambling

  • Jon E. Grant

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Brown Medical School/Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 401 455 6391; fax: +1 401 455 6539.
    • ,
  • Suck Won Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, USA

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.07.022

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 1 , Pages 34-37 , January 2005

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