Project:Plural Research

This page is a listing for academic resources or research on plurality and associated topics. If you are seeing this page via the Discord bot, please click the link to view the full listing below.

General

 * Epidemiology of multiple personality disorder and dissociation, C.A. Ross, University of Manitoba, 1991


 * Intersectional Representation: LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse voices in transmedia fiction, Drak, Tynan, Ball State University December 2020


 * “Multiple Systems” versus Dissociative Identity Disorder: Life-Style or Mental Illness?, Sullivan, Megan; Lycoming College 2011


 * Multiplicity: An Explorative Interview Study on Personal Experiences of People with Multiple Selves, Gergő Ribáry, László Lajtai, Zsolt Demetrovics and Aniko Maraz, Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction, Institute of Psychology 2017

Tulpas

 * "Paranormalizing the Popular through the Tibetan Tulpa: Or what the next Dalai Lama, the X Files and Affect Theory (might) have in common" in Savage Minds, Joffe, Ben; Notes and Queries in Anthropology (U.S.A., Feb' 13, 2016).


 * THE ILLUSION OF INDEPENDENT AGENCY: DO ADULT FICTION WRITERS EXPERIENCE THEIR CHARACTERS AS HAVING MINDS OF THEIR OWN? MARJORIE TAYLOR, SARA D. HODGES, and ADELE KOHANYI., University of Oregon, Eugene 2003


 * The Imaginary Companions Created by Children and Adults." Play and Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural and Functional Perspectives, Pg 227-249, 2007, Taylor, Marjorie; Mannering, Anne M.: Of Hobbles and Harvey


 * Imaginary Friends: Helpful or Harmful, Klivans, Laura, May 2016


 * Tracking the Tulpa : Exploring the “Tibetan” Origins of a Contemporary Paranormal Idea. Nova Religio Mikles, Natasha L.; Laycock, Joseph P.; The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 19, No. 1, Pg 87-97, August 2015


 * Talking to Tulpas: Sentient Imaginary Friends, the Social Mind, and implications for Culture and Cognition Research, Samuel Veissière, 2014


 * Tulpas and Mental Health: A Study of Non-Traumagenic Plural Experiences, Isler, Jacob, Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 2017


 * Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: Sentient Imaginary Friends, Embodied Joint Attention, and Hypnotic Sociality in a Wired World, Samuel Veissière, 2015