Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 143916827X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Debbie’s work has won numerous national and regional awards, including: The H.L. She specializes in writing about immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border, sexual politics and sex panics, particularly in relation to women and children. She has been involved in translating two others into English — one from Spanish and the other from Latin American Yiddish. Debbie is author an
"The author makes a number of valid points about this" according to Colette Lord. The author makes a number of valid points about this case and the analysis of Sybil. However she has her own bias against the Dissociative Identity disorder and it shows. Her concerns and conclusions about the Sybil case should not be generalized to the disorder as a whole.. keara said Long read, but interesting topic. Very interesting book, the beginning is hard to get through very factual (resembling three chapters or so worth of a Wikipedia page) but necessary to understand the individuals discussed in the book.. "Hard to separate the truth from the author's bias" according to abt1950. This book claims to be an expose of Cornelia Wilbur, the psychiatrist who treated Sybil, and Flora Rheta Schreiber, the journalist whose book made Sybil a household name. Nathan makes some good points, but she is not the first person to have questioned Sybil's diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder (now DID). The author has done extensive research, which is a plus, but the book is marred by her obvious contempt for Wilbur and Schreiber. Much of the book is character assassination. Wilbur comes off as an opportunist and Schreiber as an ugly, emotionally insecure woman. For example, Nathan criticizes Schreiber's ta
But what do we really know about how Sybil came to be? In her news-breaking book Sybil Exposed, journalist Debbie Nathan gives proof that the allegedly true story was largely fabricated. It was during these “treatments” that Sybil produced rambling, garbled, and probably “false-memory”–based narratives of the hideous child abuse that her psychiatrist said caused her MPD. The book rocketed multiple personality disorder (MPD) into public consciousness and played a major role in having the diagnosis added to the psychiatric bible, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Sybil became both a pop phenomenon and a revolutionary force in the psychotherapy industry. Set across the twentieth century and rooted in a time when few professional roles were available to women, this is a story of corrosive sexism, unchecked ambition, and shaky theories of psychoanalysis exuberantly and drastically practiced. Sybil: a name that conjures up enduring fascination for legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973 and the TV movie based on it—starring S
Any reader captivated by our contemporary “first-hand” accounts of mental illness, should read this account that illustrates how the demands of the readers at any historical moment shape such accounts and make them seem truer than true.” --Sander L. "In this startling exposéNathan serves up a tale just as shocking as the famed original."--Publisher's Weekly, starred review"Debbie Nathan's fine, insistent mind will stop at nothing to get to the truth behind Sybil, no how many walls are put up— Her research is beyond compare." --Susie Bright, author of Big Sex Little Death"I've long considered Debbie Nathan to be the most important and unsung writer working in America today. She asks deeper questions: Why did people love this book? T