The relationship between pathological dissociation, self-injury and childhood trauma in patients with personality disorders using taxometric analyses

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 65-88

  Goodman, Marianne ^a   Weiss, Daniel S ^b   Mitropoulou, Vivian ^a   New, Antonia ^a   Koenigsberg, Harold ^a   Silverman, Jeremy M ^a   Siever, Larry ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood trauma; Pathological dissociation; Personality disorder; Taxometric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IDENTITY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE;

EID: 0042887537     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v04n02_05     Document Type: Article

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