Studies and Research Into Endogenic and Non-Disordered Plurality
I've been neglecting my Studies and Research page for a while, so I decided it was about time to bring it back. This time completely reorganized and mobile friendly. (Sort of. A lot of these are still PDFs, so clicking the links isn't mobile friendly. But you can actually reach it on mobile now unlike my old page.)
Blue links are free. Orange are paywalled but Sci-Hub compatible. Red is paywalled and not sci-hub compatible.
Latest Update: 5/12/24 (This post will be continuously updated with more research. If you see this in a reblog, you may not have the newest version. Patch Notes will be at the bottom.)
Papers on The Tulpamancy Community
Varieties of Tulpa Experiences
Book: Hypnosis and meditation: Towards an integrative science of conscious planes
Learning to Discern the Voices of Gods, Spirits, Tulpas, and the Dead
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbac005
Tulpas and Mental Health: A Study of Non-Traumagenic Plural Experiences
Unusual experiences and their association with metacognition: investigating ASMR and Tulpamancy
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2021.1999798
Personality Characteristics of Tulpamancers and Their Tulpas
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5t3xk (This is a pre-print and may lack peer review.)
Papers on Other Endogenic/Non-Disordered Plurals
Multiplicity: An Explorative Interview Study on Personal Experiences of People with Multiple Selves
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00938
Exploring the experiences of young people with multiplicity
Exploring the Utility and Personal Relevance of Co-Produced Multiplicity Resources with Young People
DOI: 10.1007/s40653-021-00377-7
Conceptualizing multiplicity spectrum experiences: A systematic review and thematic synthesis
It's just a body: A community-based participatory exploration of the experiences and health care needs for transgender plural people
(Note: While most of the paper is paywalled, the introduction is still interesting and worth reading IMO.)
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.100354
Transgender Mental Health (Includes a chapter on Plurality)
Papers on Spiritual Plurality and Plural-like Experiences
Can the DSM-5 differentiate between nonpathological possession and dissociative identity disorder? A case study from an Afro- Brazilian religion
DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2015.1103351
The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01197.x
Multiple Personality and Channeling
DOI: 10.29046/JJP.009.1.001
Commentary on "Multiple Personality and Channeling"
DOI: 10.29046/JJP.009.2.011
Papers on the Agency of Imaginary Friends
Explaining the Illusion of Independent Agency in Imagined Persons with a Theory of Practice
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2043265
Investigating Valence and Autonomy in Children's Relationships with Imaginary Companions (Paywalled)
The bully in my mind: Investigating children's negative relationships with imaginary companions (Thesis)
https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/1468
‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study
Imaginary Companions, Inner Speech, and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: What Are the Relations?
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01665
Maladaptive daydreaming is a dissociative disorder: Supporting evidence and theory.
DOI: 10.4324/9781003057314
Papers on the Agency of Fictional Characters
The Illusion of Independent Agency: Do Adult Fiction Writers Experience Their Characters as Having Minds of Their Own?
DOI: 10.2190/FTG3-Q9T0-7U26-5Q5X
‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.102901
Papers on the Agency of Hallucinations in Psychotic Disorders
A psychotherapy approach to treating hostile voices
DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2016.1247190
Auditory Hallucinations in Dissociative Identity Disorder and Schizophrenia With and Without a Childhood Trauma History (Paywalled)
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181c299ea
The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Rethinking Social Cognition in Light of Psychosis: Reciprocal Implications for Cognition and Psychopathology
DOI: 10.1177/216770261667707
Relevant Quotes From Irrelevant Papers
These are papers that largely have nothing to do with endogenic or non-disorder plurality, but include important quotes. These relevant quotes are screenshotted so you don't need to read entire papers for one paragraph.
Non-disordered plurality is mentioned in the International Classification of Diseases. (ICD-11)
Authors of the The Haunted Self and creators of the Theory of Structural Dissociation reference that hypnosis or spiritual practices may result in self-conscious dissociative parts of the personality.
DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2011.570592
Additional Quotes and Articles:
Email Correspondence From Dr. Colin Ross To @/SysmedsAreSexist.
The Mystical, Mind-Sharing Lives of Tulpamancers (Includes Quotes from Samuel Veissiere, Michael Lifshitz and Tanya Luhrmann)
Imaginary Friends: Helpful or Harmful? (Includes quotes on tulpamancy from Dr. Richard Loewenstein.)
I've added an "additional quotes and articles" section for sources that lack review, but are still helpful nonetheless. This includes Imaginary Friends: Helpful or Harmful for its quotes from Dr. Loewestein, and The Mystical, Mind-Sharing Lives of Tulpamancers for its quotes from three doctors studying tulpamancy.
I've also added the Colin Ross emails from sysmedsaresexist.
