Bibliography and Suggested Reading

American Psychiatric Association. “300.14 Multiple Personality Disorder.” Diagnostic and Statistical Man-

ual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition – Revised) 3 (1987): 269-272

The source material to convert for this project.

American Psychiatric Association. “300.14 Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality

Disorder).” Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) 4 (1994): 484-487

“Second place” in the contest for source material to convert for this project.

Astraea’s Web: multiple personality resources & controversies. September 13, 2007. <http://astraeasweb.net/

plural/>.

A website devoted to the idea of “natural multiplicity.” Discusses multiplicity as a healthful, natural state of

being plagued by media disinformation and miseducation.

“Plurality 101, or Plurality for Dummies (or Stuff You Can Show Your Grandmother To Explain To Her

That You’re not a Serial Killer.” Collective Phenomenon. September 12, 2005 <http://www.dreamshore.net/

amorpha/plural101.html>

Three links. The Layman’s Guide to Multiplicity is down, but the guides for children of and significant oth-

ers of multiples are still up. Takes a natural, “empowered” multiplicity perspective.

“The Layman’s Guide to Multiplicity.” four and twenty. September 30, 2004. <http://www.karitas.net/

blackbirds/layman/>

The correct link to the Layman’s Guide to Multiplicity. More healthy natural multiplicity for beginners who

want to know more about it.

“D.I.D. You Know?” DeviantArt. June 21, 2007. < http://tigrin.deviantart.com/art/D-I-D-You-Know-

58072489>

A comic, partly to blame for this one. Illustrates the diagnosis of DID and its symptoms in a simple, nonbi-

ased, reader-friendly way.

Rabinowitz, Dorothy. No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times.

Free Press, 2003.

Discusses, among other things, the idea of False Memory Syndrome, and the bizarre stories accompanying

the Satanic Ritual Abuse sex circles of the early nineties, which was accompanied by a wave of MPD diag-

noses. Doesn’t directly discuss multiplicity.

Loftus, Elizabeth, and Katherine Ketcham. Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the

Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial. St. Martin’s Griffin, 1992.

More of the same, discussing memory and its fallacies during times of trauma, and how it can be changed

and warped over time. Not directly related to multiplicity, but relevant.