Culture-bound dissociation: A comparative analysis

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 213-226

  Somer, Eli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Maytal Israel Institute for Treatment and Study of Stress   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW;

CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CULTURE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; HUMANS; RELIGION;

EID: 33644850703     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2005.10.009     Document Type: Review

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