A review of published research on adult dissociative identity disorder: 2000-2010

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-11

  Boysen, Guy A ^a,b   Vanbergen, Alexandra ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

^b MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dissociation; Dissociative identity disorder; etiology; posttraumatic; sociocognitive

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SIMULATION; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER;

EID: 84871873808     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31827aaf81     Document Type: Review

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