Chronic Relational Trauma Disorder: A New Diagnostic Scheme for Borderline Personality and the Spectrum of Dissociative Disorders

Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 495-510

  Blizard, Ruth A ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203893920     Document Type: Chapter

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