Attachment and Dissociation

Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 53-65

  Liotti, Giovanni ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203893920     Document Type: Chapter

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