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Is the Film Unbreakable Really About PTSD with Dissociation?

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA

    Periel Shapiro, Anthony Tobia & Rehan Aziz

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Shapiro, P., Tobia, A. & Aziz, R. Is the Film Unbreakable Really About PTSD with Dissociation?. Acad Psychiatry 42, 871–872 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-018-0979-2

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