Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.
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Documents the stories of the women behind the famous multiple-personality-disorder case, contending that a large portion of the story was fabricated by a willing patient, her psychiatrist, and an ambitious journalist.
The 1973 book 'Sybil : the true story of a woman possessed by sixteen separate personalities' was a best-selling 'true story' and spawned a recognised syndrome: 'multiple personality disorder. Nathan argues that the account is fake and cooked up by three individuals hungry for f…
Shirley -- Connie -- Flora -- Miss Mason -- Dr. Wilbur -- Professor Schreiber -- Manhattan -- The couch -- Addiction -- Lies -- Poverty -- Cure -- Impatience -- Doubts -- Selling -- Troubleshooting -- Filming -- Brand control -- The journalist and the murderer -- Lexington and b…
Sybil: a name that resonates with legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973. The book rocketed multiple personality disorder into public consciousness and played a major role in having the diagnosis added to the psychiatric bible Diagnostic and S…