Kat is giving a report on dissociative identity disorder (DID) in her psychopathology seminar. A main conclusion that you would expect to hear from her talk is that
A) most claims of sexual abuse as a precursor to DID have been proven with corroborating evidence.
B) DID is most often created by questionable therapeutic practices rather than being a true disorder.
C) the diagnosis of DID has dropped nearly a hundredfold since 1979.
D) most clinical psychologists agree that DID is a valid psychological disorder.
Answer: B
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