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The public, however, was exposed to psychological ideas which took their interest.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe had a formidable impact.

In 1957, with the publication of the book The Three Faces of Eve and the popular movie which followed it, the American public's interest in multiple personality was revived.

During the 1970s an initially small number of clinicians campaigned to have it considered a legitimate diagnosis.