Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 3 , Pages 181-185 , May 2005

Dissociation and fantasy proneness in psychiatric patients: a preliminary study

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 3 , Pages 181-185 , May 2005

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