Self or Selves?: Dissociative Identity Disorder and Complexity of the Self-System.

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-128

  Oppenheimer, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

complexity; connectionist modelling; dissociative identity disorder (DID); neurological system; self system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036112817     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354302121006     Document Type: Article

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