Sybil (personality disorder, dissociative, child, stop)

[nightflight]

“Sybil,” the shocking true story of a woman shattered into 16 distinct personalities that helped her to dig up repressed memories of monstrous childhood sexual abuse, sold nearly 7 million copies when it was published in 1973. A serialized version ran in newspapers around the nation as readers gasped at “scenes of Sybil’s demented mother defecating on lawns, conducting lesbian orgies and raping her daughter with kitchen utensils. This kind of sex and perversion had never before been published on the ‘women’s’ pages,” writes author Debbie Nathan in a new book. “Sybil” was adapted into an Emmy-winning 1976 TV miniseries starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward that was viewed by one-fifth of the American public.

And it was an utter fraud.

Read more: Multiple-personality drama “Sybil” was a fraud, says new book - NYPOST.com

[Magritte25]

Sorry man, but that's old news.

[Savoir Faire]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Sorry man, but that's old news.

I fail to see the political angle in the story

[Ceece]

You don't hear much about multiple personality disorder anymore. It's was in vogue back in the 70's. There was a tv show with Toni Collette on for awhile about a woman who had a couple different ones, but I got tired of it once I'd seen them all and stopped watching.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by Savoir Faire

I fail to see the political angle in the story

Nor I. However, upon reading many comments on the story linked, I see people really can politicize anything. It's the liberals' fault, of course, that these women lied and made money off their lies.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by Ceece

You don't hear much about multiple personality disorder anymore. It's was in vogue back in the 70's. There was a tv show with Toni Collette on for awhile about a woman who had a couple different ones, but I got tired of it once I'd seen them all and stopped watching.

It's called Dissociative Identity Disorder now. It's extremely rare.
Dissociative Identity Disorder: Dissociative Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition

[Oildog]

Once again, a shrink trying to make a buck over a condition with their 'revolutionary' treatment. People like that need the chair.

[jaijai]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Once again, a shrink trying to make a buck over a condition with their 'revolutionary' treatment. People like that need the chair.

"The chair"?

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Once again, a shrink trying to make a buck over a condition with their 'revolutionary' treatment. People like that need the chair.

She's been dead for years, so I don't think any chair is going to do much good.

But I still find myself saying, "It's the people! The people!" in a high-pitched voice a la Sally Field as Sybil.

[CA4Now]

"And it was an utter fraud."

I had no idea that it wasn't true. How bizarre. That was such an interesting book.