A friend of yours asks, "Isn't it easy to tell when a person is faking the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder?" What would be an accurate answer?
a. "No, because there is no way to accurately determine the existence of multiple personalities."
b. "Yes, you can give them personality tests, those can't be faked."
c. "Yes, diagnosis is usually done after hypnosis, when people are most truthful."
d. "Yes, differences in EEG tracing prove who is showing a different personality and who is not."
A
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