Re: The Persistence of Folly: A Critical Examination of Dissociative Identity Disorder. What Are Dr Piper and Dr Merskey Trying to Do?

From: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Sar, Vedat | Copyright information

Dear Editor: In their recent review (1), Dr Piper and Dr Merskey claim that North American countries "export" their dissociative disorder concepts and refer in this context to one of my studies published 8 years ago in the American Journal of Psychiatry (2). Speaking from the perspective of 23 years in general psychiatry as clinical professor of the oldest university psychiatric department in Istanbul (a metropolis of 10 million having the full spectrum of psychiatric disorders), I attribute ...

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