User talk:RMGORDONPHD

Medical sourcing on Wikipedia

On Wikipedia medical information, including information about mental health, have special sourcing requirements which you can find at WP:MEDRS. Note in particular that we base content on secondary studies such as systematic reviews - we generally do not report on single primary studies. MrOllie (talk) 12:35, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

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I am an independent researcher with no conflict of interest. The peer refereed journal published our empirical research. Here is a link to the full article:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235683555_MMPI-2_Findings_of_Primitive_Defenses_in_Alienating_Parents RMGORDONPHD (talk) 13:58, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

For an empirical study to test the involvement of primitive defenses in Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), authors collected 158 MMPI-2s from court ordered custody evaluations, 76 were PAS cases and 82 were custody cases without PAS (controls). We used the MMPI-2 indexes to measure primitive defenses. We found that mothers and fathers who were alienators had higher (clinical range) scores indicating primitive defenses such as splitting and projective identification, than control mothers and fathers (normal range scores) in both our indexes. Target parents were mostly similar to the control parents. RMGORDONPHD (talk) 14:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Peer reviewed isn't our minimum bar - please read WP:MEDRS. We don't report on single studies. And yes, if you are adding references to your own work, you have a conflict of interest as Wikipedia defines it. See WP:COI. MrOllie (talk) 14:11, 20 April 2022 (UTC)