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Annotated Bibliography 2017
Annotated Bibliography 2017
Annotated Bibliography
Eliza Deguzman
English 1104
Annotated Bibliography
This is an article posted on a widely known website that provides medical information
from professionals on mental health, emotional support, and advocacy. In the article, the
author briefly explains the process of dissociating and how it could affect a patient. A
specific example, which is helpful for my research, is how patients with traumatic
experiences could trigger that person to dissociate their memory of place thus can result a
ripple on their sense of identity and history. That effect could possibly lead to multiple
personalities. The author also grazes against the controversial question: do people
actually have multiple personalities? Here, the author explains the technicality of
properly depicting a diagnosed patients alternate personalities. Though this source did
not specifically address my topic which is whether or not multiple personalities are fact
or fiction, it does provide great information that I can use to build up the beginning of my
research. I also deem this source trustworthy after seeing that it was written by a
RN by Kallena for All In The Mind What Its like to Live with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
This is an article posted on a news outlet for ABC in Australia. The article is a self-
reflection of a social worker named Kallena who is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity
Disorder. She gives us a brief background of her life surrounding the disorder, explaining
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how her abuse impacted her both physically and emotionally. She also explains her
journey with discovering the disorder, first being diagnosed as bipolar despite there being
signs of it being not. Reading through this article was very resourceful and it helped
reading it through a person who is actually diagnosed with the disorder rather than
reading information from medical experts. Its more personal and could be a great aid in
my research paper. I will use her account amongst others that I will find from books or
movies and use them support my argument on the topic. This sources comes from a
popular website and is sent by a person who only showed their first name and is not a
medical expert, but patients of the disorder come from various backgrounds which is
Slanzi, Crystal. Dissociative Identity Disorder: Drawing the Line between Fact and Fiction.
The Trauma and Mental Health Report, trauma.blog.yorku.ca. 13 Feb. 2013. Accessed 10
Mar. 2017.
This source is a blog post published on a blog site that is dedicated to topics about trauma
and mental health. Within this post we follow the author who is interviewing psychologist
and professor at Townson University, Bethany Brand and together they cover more in
depth about the controversy that surrounds the disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Brand explains how experts are able to distinguish when patients are bluffing or telling
the truth, stating that past childhood trauma should be present and that experts should not
suggest symptoms or history of trauma exposure. This can relate to my topic and provide
support to both sides of the argument. Brand is able to provide information that is backed
up through research. For example, if the fantasy model is more accurate and trauma is
fantasized, the relationship between dissociation and trauma are stronger when self-
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reported. Despite this being a blog post, bringing a medical expert into questioning
helped make the information more accurate. This blog post also is specific to my topic
and gave insight to both sides. I will use this information as background and support,
using the experiences shes had with clients and research that she has knowledge of.
Traumatic Stress Disorder, Simulators, and Controls. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 25 May
This is an academic journal entry that I found from the schools database. The entry
shows findings found from a study that compares two patients groups and two control
groups to examine whether the Trauma or Fantasy Model fits the best findings. This
relates to debunking some truth to the controversial question of whether the disorder is
fiction or fantasy based. The way they conducted this experiment is by taking females
between the ages 18 and 65 who were either officially diagnosed with DID, questioned to
have DID, or diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and health controls. The
participants then went through variety of questionnaires where the conductors recorded
and later compared their findings. Their significant outcomes came out to be that with
patients with genuine diagnosed DID were not fantasy-prone and did not generate false
memories compared to other groups. Evidence also showed that findings supported the
Trauma Model more, thus challenging the Fantasy Model. This information is really
helpful supporting my side of the argument because I do believe that DID is a genuine
mental disease. This information may also aid me in coming up with potential