منابع مشابه
Multiple personality disorder.
DEARSIRS In the Psychiatric Bulletin (September 1989,13, 513), Dr Lai Fernando discussed his dearth of multiple personality disorder (MPD) patients in various countries including Canada. He also knew of no other colleagues with such cases. However, many of his Canadian colleagues are treating MPD patients as well as doing research. My own initial cases date from 1977 when I was working in Germa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.155.4.565a