Elzinga,van Dyck & Spinhoven (1998) found that the number of reported cases of Dissociative identity Disorder(DID) worldwide rose from 79 in 1980 to 6000 in 1986,and the vast majority of these have been reported in the US.Which of the following could be a reason for this rise?
A) The inclusion of DID for the first time as a diagnostic category in DSM-III published in 1980
B) Early cases of DID may simply have been diagnosed as examples of schizophrenia rather than a dissociative disorder
C) Therapists have increasingly used hypnosis in an attempt to get victims of childhood abuse to reveal details of this abuse or to reveal alter identities,
D) All of the above
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