Psychiatry Research
Volume 149, Issue 1 , Pages 169-176 , 15 January 2007

Prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in the general population

  • Vedat Şar

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Psychotherapy Unit and Dissociative Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty of Istanbul, Istanbul University, Istanbul Tip Fakültesi Psikiyatri Klinigi 34390 Capa Istanbul, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +90 212 236 02 14; fax: +90 212 261 70 04.
    • ,
  • Gamze Akyüz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Cumhuriyet University Medical Faculty, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Orhan Doğan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Cumhuriyet University Medical Faculty, Sivas, Turkey

Received 9 September 2005 ,Revised 13 November 2005 ,Accepted 1 January 2006.

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☆ Presented in part at the 14th Annual Conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and at the 15th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, Seattle, 1998.

PII: S0165-1781(06)00008-4

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.01.005

Psychiatry Research
Volume 149, Issue 1 , Pages 169-176 , 15 January 2007

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