The Textbook Notes That There Was an "Epidemic" of Dissociative

question 7

Multiple Choice

The textbook notes that there was an "epidemic" of dissociative identity disorder diagnoses in the 1970s, and offers which explanation for this increase in frequency of this condition?

• A)Clinicians were looking more carefully for symptoms of DID.
• B)There was a television program that unintentionally hypnotized a number of viewers into demonstrating DID symptoms.
• C)People watched the President of the United States reveal that he had struggled with DID and this led to people believing that they had the condition.
• D)It was a side effect to some new psychotropic medications that people were taking.

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