Anaïs Nin: A case study of personality disorder and creativity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 800-808

  Kehagia, Angie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ana s Nin; Creativity; Histrionic personality disorder; Psychobiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949134541     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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