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It was mentioned as the book that sparked a huge increase in multiple personality disorder cases, after its publication and subsequent movie adaptation. It was written about a woman named Chris Costner Sizemore, who the authors claimed to have cured and reintegrated her personalities.
Can you believe this? And these cases are going to start to grow by leaps and bounds in number and all can be traced back to a single book which is based on a single case history.
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It was mentioned as the book that sparked a huge increase in multiple personality disorder cases, after its publication and subsequent movie adaptation. It was written about a woman named Chris Costner Sizemore, who the authors claimed to have cured and reintegrated her personalities.
Can you believe this? And these cases are going to start to grow by leaps and bounds in number and all can be traced back to a single book which is based on a single case history.
Yeah well a couple of books. Yeah but to start it was all about Eve.
That's right. The Three Faces of Eve was a book written in 1957 by two psychiatrists and it was about a woman whose real name was Chris Costner Sizemore.
Super popular made them a ton of money. There was a big blockbuster movie. It was just it took over.
Like for the first time it was everyone you know like you said it's kind of super sexy and interesting.