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Aug 30, 2017 · Sybil was a bestselling book and a TV mini-series based on the case of Shirley Mason, a woman who claimed to have 16 personalities. Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals how the story was fabricated by a psychiatrist and a journalist, and how it influenced the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder.
Based on the book Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, the movie dramatizes the life of a shy young graduate student, Sybil Dorsett (in real life, Shirley Ardell Mason), suffering from dissociative identity disorder as a result of the psychological trauma she suffered as a child.
May 28, 2023 · Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away. 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 ...
- Alexandra Jacobs
Real 'Sybil' Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake. Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book Sybil. The book and subsequent film caused an enormous...
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
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Based on a true story, Sybil follows a young woman who develops sixteen different personalities as a result of childhood abuse. The series won four Primetime Emmys and stars Joanne Woodward, Sally Field and Brad Davis.
Aug 16, 2006 · Sally Field stars as a woman with 16 different personalities, and Joanne Woodward plays her therapist in this harrowing drama based on a true story. The DVD features interviews with the cast and crew, and explores the real-life case of Sybil.
