The patient moved very slowly as he walked into the conference room of an outpatient clinic. He was wearing sun glasses and said that the light bothered him. However, it was clear that even with his dark glasses, he was squinting, and his face was pinched with pain. He was a 60-year-old man who was experiencing a three day migraine.
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Kellerman, H. (2008). “I Can Hardly Move”: A Case of a Three-Day Migraine. In: The Psychoanalysis of Symptoms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72248-1_12
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