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- The story of Sybil — a young woman who had been abused by her mother as a child and, as a result, had a mental breakdown and created multiple personalities — caused a sensation. Sybil was a bestselling book in the 1970s and was adapted as a 1976 television mini-series and a feature-length docudrama in 2007.
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Sybil. Flora Rheta Schreiber 's non-fiction book Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by 16 Separate Personalities told a version of Mason's story with names and details changed to protect her anonymity. In 1998, Sigmund Freud historian Peter J. Swales discovered Sybil's true identity. [7] .
Jun 10, 2020 · Cornelia B. Wilbur, a medical doctor, and psychiatrist, previously on staff at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, presented the case of Sybil Isabel Dorsett to the nation. The case of young Sybil resulted in a book, written by Flora Rheta Schreiber, and a TV movie simply titled Sybil.
In 1973, the book Sybil - about a young woman struggling with 16 distinct personalities - became a cultural sensation, spawning a hugely successful made-for-TV movie in 1976 and an utterly unnecessary remake in 2007.
May 1, 2012 · The book Sybil Exposed is the unmasking of the falsehoods of Sybil (1), a biography of a woman with dissociative identity disorder. After its publication in 1973, Sybil was an absolute sensation, with an initial printing of 400,000 copies.
Shirley Ardell Mason, aka Sybil, spent her first 26 years in Minnesota, growing up in Dodge Center and graduating in 1949 from the teachers’ college that became Minnesota State, Mankato.
Oct 16, 2011 · A television adaptation broadcast in 1976 was seen by a fifth of all Americans. But Sybil’s story was not just gripping reading; it was instrumental in creating a new psychiatric diagnosis:...
