Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2 , Pages 130-136 , March 2000

Personality traits of women with a history of childhood sexual abuse

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☆ Supported in part by the Mental Health Association of Monroe County (Gottschalk Research Grant), a Leonard F. Salzman Research Award from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, and US Public Health Service Grants No. K07-MH01135 and R0l-MH39531.

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