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It was written by two psychiatrists based on a patient named Chris Costner Sizemore and detailed the emergence of multiple personalities, becoming very popular and the basis of a film.
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 written by two psychiatrists based on a patient named Chris Costner Sizemore and detailed the emergence of multiple personalities, becoming very popular and the basis of a film.
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.
It was just it took over. Well not took over but it made a huge splash in the just people's consciousness about what this is.
Like for the first time it was everyone you know like you said it's kind of super sexy and interesting.