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Sybil: The true and extraordinary story of a woman possessed by sixteen separate personalities By Flora Rheta Schreiber ( Grand Central Publishing )
Release Date: 1989-05-25
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The incredible true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of child abuse who was diagnosed with the first multiple personality disorder, reveals that she played host to sixteen separate and distinct personalities before making the long journey to recovery. Reissue.
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 Sybil
The book was in excellent condition and great buy. I would order from this site again. Thanks
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Chilling True Story of Child Abuse and Coping Mechanisms! ( sylviastel )
I have a friend who is a multiple personality disorder. Regardless if you have seen the movie version of this book, Sybil, with first rate performances by Emmy Winners Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, multiple personality disorder is a lot more complicated. Sometimes, the person who has it can't integrate all the personalities together. Sometimes, a person who has the disorder may not realize that they have it. Of course, sometimes they talk as children in their personalities but most of the time, their personalities emerge without witnesses who would notice that there is something wrong. Sybil was not a rare case but she is a terrific example of how somebody overcame horror at the hands of her own mother who was obviously mentally ill herself. The scenes that horrified me most in reading were the kitchen scenes where Sybil is raised and her mother does unspeakable things to her vaginal areas as well as locking her in small quarters. Child abuse has been around since the beginning of time. Some children like Sybil have other ways of coping with it. In her case, she developed fragmented personalities to overcome and handle the situation. Slowly, the personalities emerged because the good doctor welcomed it. In most cases, it may not be that welcoming. Sybil was or is still an artist and she was completely creative in developing the way to cope by becoming somebody else. You wonder how people like Sybil cope with such horror and now you will know that our minds are quite powerful tool in helping us deal with our pain.
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 I wish I coud give this book/movie a -1 star
This trash is some of the worst reading matterial produced in the Western Hemsiphere in this entire century. How anyone can be duped into believing such a ridiculous pack of lies is beyond me. The tragdedy of this story is not that it's real, it's that so many people actually believe it really happened. This woman was either cooerced into saying these things by way of hypnosis or she was delusional and hallucinated these stories. If schizophrenia really did run in this woman's family isn't it plausible that she suffered from the delusions and hallucinations that are common with schizophrenia? Further more, MPD has never actually been accepted as a genuine diagnosis and there are some who question its validity. I did some reasearch on it and discovered that a psychiatrist who was taking over for her dr. while she was out of town felt that this woman was lying as well. It's up each person to make up their mind on this. But for me, this story is a made up pack of lies.
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I think that if you read this book believing it to be the true story that it claims to be, it is so heart wrenching and powerful, that it would no doubt be reviewed as a well deserved 4 or 5 star book. HOWEVER, finding out after the fact that it is actually in large part fictional, it loses ALOT of its power. Speaking for myself, it would have been better to simply publish it as a novel. I read it twice. Once, years ago when it was still believed to be true, and it had much more of an impact on me then. The second time it sort of left me feeling duped. In any case, Sally Field was wonderful in the movie adaptation. (This was the Million Little Pieces of the 70's.)
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 Compelling ( a1luciano )
This book is the allegedly true story of Sybil, whose name was changed for the story to protect her privacy. Almost from the time she was born, Sybil was subjected to horrific physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of her schizophrenic mother. As a toddler, Sybil learned that she would be severely punished for getting angry, or for crying, or for exhibiting a wide variety of other normal emotions. In order to cope with her situation, her mind broke apart and comparmentalized her personality, eventually creating fifteen other "selves." Each separate personality was assigned a specific role in Sybil's life, such as Vicky, the outgoing and worldly one who could be at ease in social situations, Peggy Lou, who got angry and smashed things, and Mike and Sid, who handled construction and handyman duties.
Although the created personalities were aware of each other and able to communicate with each other to some degree, Sybil was completely unaware that they existed. What she knew was that there were many things she couldn't remember from her childhood, that seemingly ordinary objects and situations had the power to fill her with absolute terror, and that there were long periods of time she'd somehow blacked out. The most dramatic example of lost time was after Sybil's beloved grandmother's funeral, when Sybil was in third grade. She blacked out and returned to herself in a fifth-grade classroom. Her Peggy Lou personality had controlled her body for over a year.
This novel covers the course of Sybil's psychological treatment, leading her toward coming to terms with her childhood abuse and toward integrating her personalities into one complete self.
Although the validity of this story has been challenged, it is a compelling read even if treated as fiction. I was fascinated by the different personalities and the duties they adopted. I like the thought that the human brain is complex enough to put into effect this unique coping mechanism in order to save a child from completely falling apart.
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