Understanding Dissociative Disorders: A Guide for Family Physicians and Healthcare Workers - Hardcover

Hunter, Marlene E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904424244 ISBN 13: 9781904424246

Publisher: Crown House Pub Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Writing for family physicians and health care professionals, Hunter, a family physician who has been working with dissociative patients since 1977, explains basic facts and issues of dissociative identity disorder (DID), looking at patients' unusual responses to medication, unusual laboratory results, and a multitude of physical and emotional symptoms. She gives advice on how family physicians can help these patients and when and where to refer them. Hunter is past president of the American and Canadian societies of Clinical Hypnosis. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

Marlene E. Hunter, MD is a Certificant and Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a past Associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Family Medicine. She is a past president of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (B.C. Division) and the B.C. College of Family Physicians.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown House Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904424244
• ISBN 13: 9781904424246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208