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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
- Lorimar Productions
Aug 30, 2017 · The story of Sybil — a young woman who had been abused by her mother as a child and, as a result, had a mental breakdown and created multiple personalities — caused a sensation. Sybil was a...
May 28, 2023 · Critic’s Notebook. 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...
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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 ...
- American
- Having dissociative identity disorder
- January 25, 1923, Dodge Center, Minnesota, U.S.
- Commercial artist
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
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- 1973
- 1973
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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...
Sybil: With Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Brad Davis, Martine Bartlett. A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed sixteen different personalities is treated by a doctor.
