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Multiple Personality Disorder and False Memory Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Harold Merskey*
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University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Copyright © 1995 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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