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Legal and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders

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The whole of the legal matter as regards the status of dissociation and pathological dissociation is that it is more than nine parts lore and less than one part law.

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Greaves, G.B., Faust, G.H. (1996). Legal and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders. In: Michelson, L.K., Ray, W.J. (eds) Handbook of Dissociation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0310-5_28

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