Defining and delimiting trauma-related dissociation: A view from cultural psychiatry

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 465-468

  Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 79959315781     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2011.570235     Document Type: Article

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