User talk:Echilcot12/sandbox

Citing sources

Hi, Echilcot12! I saw your edit summary about learning to cite properly, so popped over here to give you a hand. You have:

• Ryle, Anthony; Fawkes, Liz (2007). "Multiplicity of Selves and Others: A cognitive analytic approach". Journal of Clinical Psychology. 63 (2). doi:10.1002/jclp.20339. Retrieved 19 February 2015.

The only thing you could do differently is that access dates are not required on Wikipedia for journal articles. The DOI links to the abstract, and the URL links to the full text, which is correct, but I thought I'd mention that we don't include the URL parameter unless the article has free full text (which in this case, it does). And, you left off the month and page numbers. So, a correct citation would be:

• Ryle, Anthony; Fawkes, Liz (February 2007). "Multiplicity of Selves and Others: A cognitive analytic approach". Journal of Clinical Psychology. 63 (2): 165–74. doi:10.1002/jclp.20339. PMID 17173319.

Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:33, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Oops ... and you left off the PubMed identifier (PMID), so I've added it. From looking at the information in the PMID, you can see that this is a case report, so it is not the kind of source that can be used for most medical statements (see WP:MEDRS). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Sandy has a good point about the Ryle & Fawkes article being a case study. Also, I skimmed the article and it's not really clear to me that the eight different ways multiplicity manifests itself are actually discussed in it. But, there are some references listed by Ryle & Fawkes that could be good to look for more info in. ScottPKingPhD (talk) 14:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Multiplicity Info & practicing citing things again

Rita Carter states that evidence for multiplicity is all around us, and even found in history. When someone states that they have been taken over by a spirit, soul, or ghost they are saying that they are experiencing another personality. More commonly, this happens day to day in a different way. If you are feeling happy and carefree while in the company of your friends, but are less happy when you go home to your family, this is an example of multiple personality styles. Also, times when someone states that ‘they aren’t themselves today’. They are acknowledging that there are differences in their personality.

Historically Important People

Historically, there are many examples of having different personalities. Plato saw that people had different personalities; he called one ‘the rational self’, ‘the spirit’, and ‘the appetite’. He noted that different parts of the personality emerged under certain environmental conditions.

Shakespeare also showed examples of this in his works of literature. Characters that he came up with like Hamlet and Macbeth had different, distinct personalities that differed throughout their respective works.

Freud supported this when he came up with the Id, Ego, and Superego. Arguing that there is a split in the conscious & unconscious mind.

Italian psychologist Roberto Assagoli came up with a therapy called psychosynthesis, and thought there are lots of personalities that are working in our bodies throughout the day that we are not consciously aware of.

American psychologists John & Helen Watkins started using hypnosis to bring out the many personalities that inhabit ones body. This is the method they used to study different personalities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Echilcot12 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

References

The problem is in your ref name (ref name=Multiplicity group=Book) ... it has two equal signs. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:08, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you SandyGeorgia I appreciate your quick response! Echilcot12 (talk) 01:24, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Echilcot12, you still haven't fixed it. You have the citation as ref name==Multiplicity group==Book. but then you use it as a named ref as ref name=Multiplicity /. The first time you use the ref, it should be ref name= Multipicity). See WP:REFNAME.

Also, you can sign your posts by entering four tildes after them ( ~~~~ ).

Do you realize you are posting content on the talk page of your sandbox, rather than in your sandbox, at User:Echilcot12/sandbox? If your fellow students are going to review your work in sandbox, they will not find it there :)

Also, pls see WP:FN: footnotes go after punctuation with no space.

Also, see WP:MSH; we don't capitalize every wording in headings; perhaps you intend the heading to be "History", which would be more encyclopedic. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:03, 27 February 2015 (UTC)