Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities - Softcover

Schreiber, Flora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241967635 ISBN 13: 9780241967638

Publisher: Penguin, 2013

Synopsis

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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Review:

The story of Sybil is a psychological masterpiece . . . enthralling from the first scene to the last (Lucy Freeman)

Astonishing book . . . It forces you to look at yourself and the people around you in a new way (Doris Lessing)

About the Author:

Flora Rheta Schreiber was the psychiatry editor of Science Digest when she first heard about Sybil. She spent seven years writing this book. She is also the author of The Shoemaker. She died in 1988 in New York City of a heart attack.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0241967635
• ISBN 13: 9780241967638
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432