One Important Reason Some Psychologists Are Skeptical of Dissociative Identity

question 42

Multiple Choice

One important reason some psychologists are skeptical of dissociative identity disorder is that:

• A) the number of reported cases has increased dramatically in the early 1970s.
• B) several famous dissociative identity disorder patients have publicly admitted that they were faking their symptoms in order to gain fame and make money.
• C) dissociative identity disorder is easy to produce through hypnotic suggestion and can also be easily cured by hypnosis.
• D) the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder are also present in schizophrenia, a much more likely diagnosis.

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