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Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988) was an American journalist and the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil. For many years, she was also an English instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
May 28, 2023 · Flora Rheta Schreiber, right, was a magazine journalist whose book, “Sybil,” became a blockbuster. Right: Bob Olsen/Toronto Star, via Getty Images. By Alexandra Jacobs. May 28, 2023. Turning...
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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
She began seeing Mason frequently and eventually teamed up with the writer Flora Rheta Schreiber to work on a book about her patient. The two women taped a series of interviews. In one of...
Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 - November 3, 1988), an American journalist, was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder.
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- November 3, 1988
- April 14, 1918
Nov 4, 1988 · Flora Rheta Schreiber, the author of ''Sybil,'' a best-selling book about a woman with multiple personalities, and ''Shoemaker,'' a portrait of a Philadelphia murderer, died of a heart attack...
Nov 5, 1988 · Nov. 5, 1988 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Flora Rheta Schreiber, author of the best-selling study of grande hysterie the world came to know as “Sybil,” died of a heart attack Wednesday at a...
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