Useful Articles, Papers, and Essays
Studies
| Title | Category | Notes | Link |
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Moral Status And The Treatment of DID |
personhood |
Source on arguing that headmates are people, backtracks in denial at the insitutionalized cruelty and makes the opposite conclusion at the end |
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Six-year Follow-up of the Treatment of Patients With Dissociative Disorders Study |
integration |
Source on Low Integration Success Rates(12.8%). |
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Can the DSM-5 differentiate between nonpathological possession and dissociative identity disorder? A case study from an Afro-Brazilian religion |
nondisordered, endogenic, paywall |
Paper talks about nondisordered & spiritual plurality |
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Tracking the tulpa |
tulpamancy, history |
Paper talks about the origins of the word 'tulpa' |
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Tulpas and Mental Health: A Study of Non-Traumagenic Plural Experiences |
tulpamancy, endogenic, nondisordered |
Paper talks about tulpamancy improving practitioner's lives |
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Critiquing the Requirement of Oneness over Multiplicity: An Examination of Dissociative Identity (Disorder) in Five Clinical Texts |
nondisordered, integration |
Argues that multiplicity is not inherently disordered |
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Normal Dimensions of Multiple Personality Without Amnesia |
nondisordered, amnesia |
Argues that the disorderly part of DID is the amnesia not the multiplicity and the multiplicity is seperate from the amnesia |
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Multiplicity: An Explorative Interview Study on Personal Experiences of People with Multiple Selves |
nondisordered, community report |
Paper talking about the plural community. Paper is written with strong transphobic bias and bias against headmates having different identities. |
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Personality Characteristics of Tulpamancers and Their Tulpas |
tulpamancy |
Paper talks about how tulpamancy improves practitioner's lives |
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Exploring the Utility and Personal Relevance of Co-Produced Multiplicity Resources with Young People |
nondisordered, community report |
Talks about the plural community and what the study found the respondents want out of therapy |
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Unusual experiences and their association with metacognition: investigating ASMR and Tulpamancy |
tulpamancy, nondisordered |
Talks about how tulpamancy does not correlate to increased rates of hallucinations- ie that tulpamancy is not psychosis |
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‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices |
endogenic, nondisordered |
Talks about nondisordered plurality (doesnt call it this) in writers |
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DID- Out of the shadows at last? |
persuasive |
Paper talks about how DID is real, citing different studies |
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Frontiers in the psychotherapy of trauma and dissociation |
dissociation, trauma, masterpost |
Large number of papers in the offical clinical journal of the ISSTD |
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Dreams In Multiple Personality |
dreams |
Talks about dream phenomina in MPD patients |
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Guidelines for treating DID in adults, 3rd revision |
treatment |
Guidelines from 2010 for treating DID |
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Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy for Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder |
medication, treatment |
Mentions various medications that might help secondary symptoms |
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Dissociative disorders in Vietnam combat veterans |
later in life, request access |
DID symptoms in combat vets, suggests one can become plural later in life |
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Entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder |
later in life |
DID acquired later in life as a result of millitary service |
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On appeal from the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Oakland, California |
later in life |
DID acquired later in life as a result of millitary service |
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A psychotherapy approach to treating hostile voices |
treatment |
On how to deal with hostile voices/alters- asserts working with and talking with them if they behave in coherent ways is the best approach |
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Regaining Consensus on the Reliability of Memory |
false memory |
Talks about false memory syndrome not being a thing |
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The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity |
endogenic, nondisordered |
Spritual plurality paper |
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Towards a general model for psychopathology |
model |
Talks about a proposed unifying theoretical framework of psychopathology |
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VIOLATION AND VIRTUALITY: Two cases of physical and psychological boundary transgression and their implications |
persuasive, nondisordered |
Old paper on depathologizing MPD |
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The online community: DID and plurality |
community report, own voices |
Mentions plural community preferences vs professional attitudes, good for outlining this and generally positive to the community, but suggests many in the community are just 'fantasy prone' and not plural. Writer is plural. |
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Dissociation - Progress in the Dissociative Disorders Archive |
masterpost |
ISSTD Journal Archive (1988-1997) |
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Meeting the needs of clients with dissociative identity disorder: considerations for psychotherapy |
request access |
On meeting patients where they are at- pro |
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The ambiguous loss of post-integration : a theoretical analysis of the effects of integration on clients with dissociative identity disorder |
integration |
Talks about integration not always being a positive for all systems |
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A Jungian Perspective on the Dissociability of the Self |
endogenic, nondisordered, analysis |
Paper examines Jung through the lens of plurality, mentions Jung essentially asserted plurality could be endogenic |
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Cognitive Processes in Dissociation: An Analysis of Core Theoretical Assumptions |
dissociation, model |
Talks about dissociation as theory and framework and asserts that dissociation is not only a trauma response. |
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MODES OF EXISTENCE: TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL POLYPSYCHISM |
model, persuasive, nondisordered, endogenic |
In favor of the 'everyone is a little bit plural' model and argues for it |
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THE ILLUSION OF INDEPENDENT AGENCY: DO ADULT FICTION WRITERS EXPERIENCE THEIR CHARACTERS AS HAVING MINDS OF THEIR OWN? |
endogenic, nondisordered |
Talks about plural experiences of writers. |
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Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: The Hypnotic Nature of Human Sociality, Personhood, and Interphenomenality. |
tulpamancy, endogenic, nondisordered, personhood, community report |
Argues personhood and realness for tulpas, talks about tulpamancer demographics |
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Neuroholographic Organisms: An Independent Study of Sentient Thoughtforms |
tulpamancy, endogenic, nondisordered |
Extremely broken partial paper on tulpamancy |
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Imaginary Companions, Inner Speech, and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: What Are the Relations? |
nondisordered, voice hearing |
About imaginary friends being normal and not disorderly; only tangentally related to plurality |
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Normative Dissociation |
nondisordered, dissociation, model |
Asserts dissociation is normal and dissociative disorders are rather a disruption of this that make it become disorderly |
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Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences |
nondisordered, endogenic |
Talks about involuntary experiences of characters acting after reading |
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INTERSECTIONAL REPRESENTATION: LGBTQ+ AND NEURODIVERSE VOICES IN TRANSMEDIA FICTION |
queer, community report, representation, own voices |
Talks about intersectional representation in media, writer is plural. |
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“Multiple Systems” versus Dissociative Identity Disorder: Life-Style or Mental Illness? |
community report, nondisordered |
Seems to think that if you have DID you cant be a multiple system, has some ableist bent against DID being dangerous, equates DID to psychosis, claims sexual abuse is required to be plural, claims there isnt enough evidence to conclude that all plurals are nondisordered. Worth something due to awknowleging the community and demonstrating the ableism in the system. |
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Dissociative Experience and Cultural Neuroscience: Narrative, Metaphor and Mechanism |
dissociation, model |
Talks about dissocation being not a question of real neurology OR cultural in origin, but a mix of both. |
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Selected Topics in Ego State Therapy |
treatment |
Ego state therapy for use outside of DID therapy |
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A plurality of selves? An illustration of polypsychism in a recovered addict |
model, nondisordered, request access |
Proposes a 'everyone is plural' model |
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BOUNDARIES ON THE CONCEPTS OF DISSOCIATION AND DISSOCIATIVE PARTS OF THE PERSONALITY: REQUIRED AND VIABLE |
model |
Asserts that plurality can be a feature of far more disorders than dissociative ones and that dissociation is a key aspect of more disorder than originally thought |
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Autism: A Dissociated Self |
dissociation |
Talks about how dissociation is very common in autistic folks |
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A survey of practices and recommended treatment interventions among expert therapists treating patients with dissociative identity disorder and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified |
treatment |
Talks about what treatments therapists reccomend for dissociative disorders |
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Understanding Integration |
integration |
Ex-multiple therapist strongly in favor of integration talking about it. Views alters as not people/dehumanizes them, may be deeply triggering. |
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DID/OSDD Library community resource |
masterpost |
Archive of DID/OSDD related papers. Archive holder is a system exclusionist among other things, may color what is offered. |
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Alterity: Learning Polyvalent Selves, Resisting Disabling Notions of the Self |
nondisordered |
Somewhat in favor of plurality outside of DID, coins the word 'alterity' to describe plurality. |
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The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity |
nondisordered, model |
Considers the self is fictictious entirely and extends this to alters, but considers plurality normal outside of DID, mentions split brain phenomina |
Other Professional Sources
| Title | Category | Notes | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
Integration: A Requirement for DID Therapy – Or Not? |
integration |
Professional source on wanting to not integrate |
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Understanding Multiplicity: The experience of having more than one person, self or identify within the body |
nondisordered, endogenic, community report |
Archived multiplicity pamphlet |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition (DSM-5) |
diagnostics |
Copy of the DSM5 |
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ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics |
diagnostics |
Copy of the ICD-11 |
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What We Can Learn About Respect and Identity From Plurals |
community report, nondisordered, personhood |
Talks about the community, in favor of the community and the personhood assertions in it in particular |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Factsheet |
101 |
101 page for DID |
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Trauma During Adulthood Fact Sheet |
trauma |
ISSTD factsheet on trauma symptoms in adults |
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Article: Exploring the experiences of young people with multiplicity |
community report, nondisordered, endogenic |
Talks about the communities needs in therapy and community culture |
Non-Psychiatric Professional Arcicles Of Note
| Title | Category | Notes | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
Wikiwand Walk-In Page |
terminology |
Mention of the singlet occult concept of walk-ins. |
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Dangerous Therapy: The Story of Patricia Burgus and Multiple Personality Disorder |
abuse, false memory, satanic panic, misdiagnosis |
Example of horrific medical abuse and overdiagnosis of MPD done by therapists for clout during the Satanic Panic. Article holds belief in FMS and seems to doubt DID/MPD is a thing, but is legit beyond that. |
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Are Multiple Personalites Always a Disorder? |
community report, nondisordered, endogenic |
Article on vice about nondisordered plurality. Not the best, but its there. |