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Sybil

Schreiber, Flora Rheta. Book - 1973 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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"The classic true story of a woman possessed by sixteen personalities" -- cover.
Includes psychological index, reading group guide, and discussion questions.
pt. 1. Being : The incomprehensible clock ; Wartime within ; The couch and the serpent ; The other girl ; Peggy Lou Baldwin ; Victoria Antoinette Scharleau ; Why -- pt. 2. Becoming : Willow corners ; Yesterday was never ; Thieves of time ; The search for the center ; Silent witnesses ; The terror of laughter ; Hattie ; Battered child ; Hattie's fury has a beginning ; Willard -- pt. 3. Unbecoming : Confrontation and verification ; The boys ; The voice of orthodoxy ; The wine of wrath ; The clock comprehensible ; The retreating white coat ; Suicide -- pt. 4. Reentry : Beginning to remember ; Independent futures ; Prisoners in their body ; Journey to one ; They are me, too ; Hate heals ; Ramon ; One -- Epilogue : The new Sybil's new time.
This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse, victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Grand Central, 2009, c1973.
Year Published: 1973
Description: xx, 492 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 940

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780446550123
0446550124

SUBJECTS
Sybil, -- 1923-1998.
Sybil, -- 1923-1998 -- Mental health.
Multiple personality -- Patients -- Biography.
Multiple personality.
Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Mentally Ill Persons.