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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.
In 1998, Sigmund Freud historian Peter J. Swales discovered Sybil's true identity. [7] Schreiber's book, whose veracity was challenged (e.g., Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan [8]), stated that Mason had multiple personalities as a result of severe child sexual abuse at the hands of her mother, who, Wilbur believed, had schizophrenia. [9]
Carol Tavris, reviewing the book for The Wall Street Journal, commented that "Nathan's indefatigable detective work in Sybil Exposed has produced a major contribution to the history of psychiatric fads and the social manufacture of mental disorders. This is the book that should be a made-for-TV movie." [10]
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Cornelia Burwell Wilbur (August 26, 1908 – September 20, 1992) was an American psychiatrist.She is best known for a book, written by Flora Rheta Schreiber, and two television films titled Sybil, about the psychiatric treatment she rendered to a person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.
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