Dissociative Identity Disorder in Women

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in Women An Annotated Bibliography Dissociative Identity Disorder is also known as “Multiple Personality Disorder”. This can be defined as an effect of severe trauma during early childhood, usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual or emotional abuse. I chose this topic because I had to do a research paper about it in my Psychology class, so I just used the research I did to do this paper. This was my first choice of a topic because it’s a psychological disorder that I have been fascinated with, since coming to America. Although there were times that I had to look for a topic that was much broader, such as, “disorders and women” in general in order to find anything reliable about my topic. By broadening my research to include the “disorders that relate to men and women”, I was able to write a paper with a much more effective argument. I initially started to do research using the
Internet and looking for scholastic journals. While this provided plenty of sources it was often difficult to determine if the information was reliable and half of the results were not relevant to my topic, like there were many times that I found myself looking through thousands of search results. Many of which were so irrelevant to my topic, like bulimia and anorexia, which are disorders but these are eating disorders, not psychological disorders. The most effective research method I found was going into
EBSCOHOST and using the Academic Search Premier and Psychology databases, while trying a variety of search phrases. This method helped me find many useful journals with information that I could use directly, or, by going to the reference section of the journal, would lead me to other sources. I used IUCAT to find the reference books and the encyclopedias for my paper, the reference books were much more useful than I expected, proving that

Bibliography: Hyman, Jane Wegscheider. I Am More than One: How Women with Dissociative Identity Disorder Have Found Success in Life and Work. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Print. First, Michael, M.D., ed. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR. Vol. 4 Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000. Print. Dissociative Identity Disorder”. Psychological Science 8.6 (1997): 417-422. EBSCOhost. Web. 23 July 2012. Grohol, John. "Dissociative Identity Disorder Symptoms." PsychCentral, 9 July 2012. Web. 9 Aug. 2012. <http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx18.htm>.