Multiple personality disorder: Fact or artifact?

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 136-140

  Sarbin, Theodore R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MEMORY; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030931338     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001504-199703000-00015     Document Type: Short Survey

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