Most psychological disorders show a steady rise in prevalence from the mid-1980s through 2003. By contrast, the number of publications regarding dissociative amnesia and DID rose from low levels in...

Most psychological disorders show a steady rise in prevalence from the mid-1980s through 2003. By contrast, the number of publications regarding dissociative amnesia and DID rose from low levels in the mid-1980s to a sharp peak in the 1990s followed by an equally sharp decline by 2003 (Pope et al., 2006a). Worldwide, in 2003, the literature reported only 13 explicit cases of dissociative amnesia reported in the literature. How would you explain this phenomenon?