The Self-System as Mechanism for the Dissociative Disorders: An Extension of the Perceptual Theory of Dissociation

Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 277-285

  Beere, Donald B ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84921265005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203893920     Document Type: Chapter

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