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Dissociative pathology discriminates between bipolar mood disorder and dissociative disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

E. R. S. Nijenhuis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Valeriusplein 9, 1075 BG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
P. Spinhoven
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University, The Netherlands
R. van Dyck
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
O. van der Hart
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A. de Graaf
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E. A. M. Knoppert
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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