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Aug 30, 2017 · Sybil was a bestselling book in the 1970s and was adapted as a 1976 television mini-series and a feature-length docudrama in 2007. Author Flora Schreiber and Sybil's psychiatrist, Dr. Cornelia...
The film, originally 198 minutes long, was initially shown over the course of two nights on NBC in 1976. Due to high public interest, the VHS version of Sybil was released in the 1980s, with one version running 122 minutes and another, extended version running 132 minutes.
Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur.
- Flora Rheta Schreiber
- 1973
Sep 22, 2021 · The 1973 book was instrumental in making dissociative identity disorder a common and accepted diagnosis. In 1977, Billy Milligan was arrested for three rapes at Ohio State University. There was ...
- Gretchen Smail
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 28, 2023 · The “true story” of a woman with multiple personalities was a 1973 sensation and is still in print 50 years later. Why do such lurid tales hold their grip? Share full article. Flora Rheta...
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Sybil is a 1976 two-part, -hour American made-for-television film starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward. It is based on the book of the same name, and it was broadcast on NBC on November 14–15, 1976.
