Disinformation about dissociation: Dr Joel Paris's notions about dissociative identity disorder

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 354-356

  Brand, Bethany ^a   Loewenstein, Richard J ^b,c   Spiegel, David ^d  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMUTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILDHOOD; DEPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER;

EID: 84876376791     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318288d2ee     Document Type: Letter

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