QUESTIONING CREDIBILITY
Dianne Rockenstein, who received her Bachelor's degree in psychology and Master's degree in counseling psychology, wrote a public review discussing Daphne Scholinski's memoir The Last Time I Wore a Dress. With her review on the memoir, she mentions Scholinski consistent behavior of wanting to stretch the truth, wanting to be in control, and exemplifying bad behavior (Rockenstein, 1). She further highlights the other issues that surrounded Daphne being committed to a mental hospital such as parental issues, substance abuse, and her actions and clothing not being what is seen as an appropriate female in the eyes of the public (Rockenstein, 2). Following her description of the Daphne's memoir, Rockenstein argues that Gender Identity Disorder is not the sole diagnosis for being in the mental hospital, and that Daphne giving this as being the main reason for her …show more content…
Rockenstein hints that there are many factors that played in her being a mental hospital for three years such as depression, particularly for not being able to come to terms with her being a female (3). Rockenstein suggest that her treatment should have been geared towards depression and not behavioral modification. Instead of focusing on the purpose that Daphne was attempting to highlight in her memoir, which was the issue of how acting outside of what was considered normal is deemed as being mentally-ill affected her and her identity, her memoir was instead taken as lacking authenticity. Such criticism undermines the power of a women's voice in literature and presents an issue with how women are regarded when speaking on the topic of mental illness. Rockenstein presents this idea that Daphne could have weaved a fictionalized story, which brings forth the question of credibility of an example of women autobiographies written by former
Dianne Rockenstein, who received her Bachelor's degree in psychology and Master's degree in counseling psychology, wrote a public review discussing Daphne Scholinski's memoir The Last Time I Wore a Dress. With her review on the memoir, she mentions Scholinski consistent behavior of wanting to stretch the truth, wanting to be in control, and exemplifying bad behavior (Rockenstein, 1). She further highlights the other issues that surrounded Daphne being committed to a mental hospital such as parental issues, substance abuse, and her actions and clothing not being what is seen as an appropriate female in the eyes of the public (Rockenstein, 2). Following her description of the Daphne's memoir, Rockenstein argues that Gender Identity Disorder is not the sole diagnosis for being in the mental hospital, and that Daphne giving this as being the main reason for her …show more content…
Rockenstein hints that there are many factors that played in her being a mental hospital for three years such as depression, particularly for not being able to come to terms with her being a female (3). Rockenstein suggest that her treatment should have been geared towards depression and not behavioral modification. Instead of focusing on the purpose that Daphne was attempting to highlight in her memoir, which was the issue of how acting outside of what was considered normal is deemed as being mentally-ill affected her and her identity, her memoir was instead taken as lacking authenticity. Such criticism undermines the power of a women's voice in literature and presents an issue with how women are regarded when speaking on the topic of mental illness. Rockenstein presents this idea that Daphne could have weaved a fictionalized story, which brings forth the question of credibility of an example of women autobiographies written by former