Inter-identity amnesia in dissociative identity disorder: A simulated memory impairment?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 857-863

  Huntjens, Rafaële J C ^a   Peters, Madelon L ^a   Woertman, Liesbeth ^a   Bovenschen, Loes M ^a   Martin, Roy C ^a   Postma, Albert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; RATING SCALE; RECOGNITION; SIMULATION;

ADULT; AMNESIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 33646731956     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706007100     Document Type: Article

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