Errors of logic and scholarship concerning dissociative identity disorder

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-231

  Ross, Colin A ^a  

^a Institute for Psychological Trauma ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociative identity disorder; Intellectual standards in psychiatry

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTELLECT; LOGIC; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; LOGIC; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 65549094108     PISSN: 10538712     EISSN: 15470679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10538710902743982     Document Type: Review

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