The Long Struggle to Diagnose Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD): MPD

Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 383-402

  Dell, Paul F ^a  

^a Trauma Recovery Center in Norfolk   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84921299138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203893920     Document Type: Chapter

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