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May 2020
41m 58s

Recap: Brains & Dissociation

EMMA SUNSHAW
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We give a recap of watching the Dissociation 101 session of the first virtual conference by ISSTD, the 2020 annual conference that had been rescheduled from the pandemic starting right as we gathered in San Francisco earlier this year.

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