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.
Answer: A
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