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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. The book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in 1976 and again in 2007 ...
The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.. Disraeli's interest in this subject stemmed from his interest in the Chartist movement, a working-class political reformist movement that sought universal male suffrage and other parliamentary reforms.
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] The book was made into a highly acclaimed TV movie, starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward ...
Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988) [1] 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.
He also is known for his treatment of the woman known as Sybil, whose case became the subject of a book, 1976 television miniseries and 2007 television movie. Herbert Spiegel was the father of David Spiegel , M.D., of Stanford University , who is also an expert in hypnosis.
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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Sybil (Schreiber book), a book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about Shirley Ardell Mason, an alleged sufferer from multiple personality disorder; Sybil, a 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss; The Sybil or Sibyllan, a 1956 Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist; The Sybil, an American dress reform periodical founded by Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck