![]() A 2007 TV movie claimed to tell the “real” story of Shirley Ardell Mason, the patient who took the pseudonym of “Sibyl Dorsett” in the book, but further muddied the water by offering contradictory information.Īs far as the book goes, it is a fairly good read as a mystery story in the early chapters, from Sybil’s point of view: having long suffered from “missing time”, after “waking up” in an industrial area of Philadelphia with no clue as to how she has gotten there or what she has done for the past week, she seeks out Dr. ![]() Cornelia Wilbur, to create a cottage industry to make money off of the case. ![]() In the 40+ years since the books initial publication, and a very popular 1976 TV mini-series, several books have been published debunking the case, and accusing Schreiber of colluding with the subject and her psychoanalyst, Dr. Purporting to tell the true story of one of the first documented cases of Multiple Personality Disorder (now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder), it is difficult to separate fact from fiction in Schreiber’s account. ![]() This month, the June selection, Flora Rheta Schreiber’s Sybil. As all of the four selected titles have filmed adaptations, we will be looking at the movie versions as we go along. ![]() ( Click here for information on the 2016 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. ![]()
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