Sybil : the true story of a woman possessed by sixteen separate personalities

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Sybil : the true story of a woman possessed by sixteen separate personalities

Flora Rheta Schreiber

(Penguin books)(Penguin non-fiction)

Penguin, 2013, c1973

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"Reissued in this edition 2013"--T.p. verso

Includes index

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A controversial cult classic, Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is the extraordinary story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder. 'How are you today?' the doctor asked. 'I'm fine', was the reply. 'But Sybil isn't. She was so sick she couldn't come. So I came instead.' A collaboration between journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber and Sybil's psychiatrist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, Sybil is the story of a woman with sixteen separate personalities, and was instrumental in influencing the definition and diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. Sybil's diagnosis has since been called into question - but, forty years after it was first published, her story remains a gripping and disturbing account of one woman's struggle for mental stability and happiness.

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