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Aug 30, 2017 · Sybil was a young woman who had a mental breakdown and created 16 personalities, based on her childhood sexual abuse by her mother. The case was sensationalized by a book, a TV show and a docudrama, but the truth reveals that she was a fraud and a drug addict. Learn how journalist Debbie Nathan discovered the truth and wrote a book about it.
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.
- Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
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Biography. Sybil. Controversy. References. Shirley Ardell Mason (January 25, 1923 – February 26, 1998) was an American art teacher [1] who was reported to have dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder ).
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- Having dissociative identity disorder
- January 25, 1923, Dodge Center, Minnesota, U.S.
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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.
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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 ...
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Oct 20, 2011 · 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...
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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 stars Sally Field, Joanne Woodward and Brad Davis, and won four Primetime Emmys.
