Adaptive dissociation: Information processing and response to betrayal

Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 93-105

  Freyd, Jennifer J ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203893920     Document Type: Chapter

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