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- Sally Field played Sybil, a girl who suffered terrible abuse at the hands of her mother. And to cope with the trauma, she developed multiple personalities - as many as 16. And after the book and the movie came out, the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder, well, you can guess it skyrocketed in the U.S, from less to 100 to thousands.
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Oct 21, 2011 · In a new book writer Debbie Nathan digs into archived material documenting the experiences of a patient known as "Sybil," who reportedly suffered from multiple personality disorder.
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Oct 19, 2011 · The book was billed as the true story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder.
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Oct 18, 2011 · Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case. 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. The New York Times–bestselling book that offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, Sybil, and on multiple personality disorder itself.
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Nov 10, 2011 · "Sybil" suffered horrible abuse at the hands of her mother and her subsequent mental illness became an official psychiatric diagnosis: multiple personality disorder. After years of secrecy, we...
Oct 20, 2011 · Within a few years of its publication, reported cases of multiple personality disorder — now known as dissociative identity disorder — leapt from fewer than 100 to thousands. But in a new...
Sep 22, 2021 · Schreiber was close friends with psychoanalyst Cornelia B. Wilbur, who believed that her patient, Shirley Mason, had 16 distinct and separate personalities.
Jan 1, 2011 · Sybil: a name that conjures up enduring fascination for legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973 and the TV movie based on it—starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward—about a woman named Sybil with sixteen different personalities.
