Dissociative-type identity disturbances in undercover agents: Socio-cognitive factors behind false-identity appearances and reenactments

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 631-643

  Girodo, Michel ^a   Deck, Trevor ^a   Morrison, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 0036398703     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2002.30.7.631     Document Type: Article

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