Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Shirley Ardell Mason (January 25, 1923 – February 26, 1998) was an American art teacher who was reported to have dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). Her life was purportedly described, with adaptations to protect her anonymity, in 1973 in the book Sybil , subtitled The True Story of a Woman ...

  2. Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book Sybil. The book and subsequent film caused an enormous spike in reported cases of multiple personality...

  3. Aug 30, 2017 · Sybil's real name was Shirley Mason, and she was brought up as a Seventh Day Adventist in rural Minnesota. The fundamentalist Christian sect taught that people shouldn't read fiction. But...

  4. Jun 10, 2020 · The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 14 June 1973. From a young age, it was alleged that Shirley Mason had suffered extensive physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her parents. Schreiber’s book would highlight many instances of abuse; one of those detailing Mattie’s alleged break from reality.

  5. People also ask

  6. May 28, 2023 · Forbidden to create fiction by her parents, who were strict Seventh-day Adventists, Mason as a child instead cut out and rearranged letters and words from copies of Ladies’ Home Journal and Good...

    • Alexandra Jacobs
  7. Feb 25, 2017 · The only child of a carpenter father and overprotective mother, Shirley Ardell Mason grew up in the 1920s in a strict and religious Minnesota household. Her hometown of Dodge Center, about 75...

  8. Oct 16, 2011 · In 1998, two researchers discovered that her real name was Shirley Mason. In trying to track her down, they learned that she was dead, and the librarians at John Jay decided to unseal the ...

  1. People also search for