A related epidemic was the rise of alleged cases of multiple personality disorder, now called “dissociative identity disorder.” Before 1980, there were only a handful of such cases; by the mid-1990s, by one estimate, there were some 40,000. When the MPD clinics were closed by successful lawsuits against psychiatrists who had been inducing the disorder in vulnerable patients, the disorder began to fade away, though not completely.
DID as a possible diagnosis.
