Objective documentation of child abuse and dissociation in 12 murderers with dissociative identity disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1703-1710

  Lewis, Dorothy Otnow ^a   Yeager, Catherine A ^a   Swica, Yael ^a   Pincus, Jonathan H ^a   Lewis, Melvin ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; IDENTITY; MALE; MALINGERING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030686413     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.154.12.1703     Document Type: Article

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