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==Summary==
==Summary==
Mason is given the pseudonym "Sybil" by her therapist to protect her privacy. Originally in treatment for [[social anxiety]] and [[amnesia|memory loss]], after extended therapy involving [[amobarbital]] and [[hypnosis]] interviews, Sybil manifests sixteen personalities. Wilbur encouraged Sybil's various selves to communicate and reveal information about her life. Wilbur writes that Sybil's multiple personality disorder was a result of the severe physical and sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her mother, Hattie.
Mason is given the pseudonym "Sybil" by her therapist to protect her privacy. In 1998, [[Sigmund Freud]] historian [[Peter Swales (historian)|Peter J. Swales]] discovered Sybil's true identity.<ref>[https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1998-12-26-9812260124-story.html "Identity of 'Sybil' Finally Revealed," ''Orlando Sentinel'', Dec 26, 1998.]</ref> Originally in treatment for [[social anxiety]] and [[amnesia|memory loss]], after extended therapy involving [[amobarbital]] and [[hypnosis]] interviews, Sybil manifests sixteen personalities. Wilbur encouraged Sybil's various selves to communicate and reveal information about her life. Wilbur writes that Sybil's multiple personality disorder was a result of the severe physical and sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her mother, Hattie.


===Described personalities===
===Described personalities===
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*Mary Lucinda Saunders Dorsett (1933), a thoughtful, contemplative, and maternal homebody
*Mary Lucinda Saunders Dorsett (1933), a thoughtful, contemplative, and maternal homebody
*Marcia Lynn Dorsett (1927), an extremely emotional writer and painter
*Marcia Lynn Dorsett (1927), an extremely emotional writer and painter
*Vanessa Gail Dorsett (1935), intensely dramatic, fun loving, and a talented musician.
*Vanessa Gail Dorsett (1935), intensely dramatic, fun-loving, and a talented musician.
*Mike Dorsett (1928), one of Sybil's two male selves, a builder and a carpenter
*Mike Dorsett (1928), one of Sybil's two male selves, a builder and a carpenter
*Sid Dorsett (1928), the second of Sybil's two male selves, a carpenter and a general handyman. Sid took his name from Sybil's initials ('''S'''ybil '''I'''sabelle '''D'''orsett), meaning that Mason's personality would have been named Sam ('''S'''hirley '''A'''rdell '''M'''ason)
*Sid Dorsett (1928), the second of Sybil's two male selves, a carpenter and a general handyman. Sid took his name from Sybil's initials ('''S'''ybil '''I'''sabelle '''D'''orsett).
*Nancy Lou Ann Baldwin (date undetermined), interested in politics as fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and intensely afraid of [[Roman Catholic]]s
*Nancy Lou Ann Baldwin (date undetermined), interested in politics as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and intensely afraid of [[Roman Catholic]]s
*Sybil Ann Dorsett (1928), listless to the point of [[neurasthenia]]
*Sybil Ann Dorsett (1928), listless to the point of [[neurasthenia]]
*Ruthie Dorsett (1890), a baby and one of the less developed selves
*Ruthie Dorsett (date undetermined), a baby and one of the less developed selves
*Clara Dorsett (date undetermined), intensely religious and highly critical of Sybil
*Clara Dorsett (date undetermined), intensely religious and highly critical of Sybil
*Helen Dorsett (1929), intensely afraid but determined to achieve fulfillment
*Helen Dorsett (1929), intensely afraid but determined to achieve fulfillment
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*The Blonde (1946), a nameless perpetual teenager with an optimistic outlook
*The Blonde (1946), a nameless perpetual teenager with an optimistic outlook


The book's narrative describes Sybil's selves gradually becoming co-conscious, able to communicate and share responsibilities, and having musical compositions and art published under their various names. Wilbur attempts to integrate Sybil's various selves, first convincing them via hypnosis that they are all the same age, then encouraging them to merge. At the book's end, a new, optimistic self called "The Blonde" emerges, preceding Sybil's final integration into a single, whole individual with full knowledge of her past and present life.
The book's narrative describes Sybil's selves gradually becoming co-conscious, able to communicate and share responsibilities, and having musical compositions and art published under their various names. Wilbur attempts to integrate Sybil's various selves, first convincing them via hypnosis that they are all the same age, then encouraging them to merge. At the book's end, a new, optimistic self (called "The Blonde") emerges, preceding Sybil's final integration into a single, whole individual with full knowledge of her past and present life.


==Controversy==
==Controversy==
The book had an initial print run of 400,000.<ref>{{Cite journal | title = Sybil | publisher = [[Kirkus Reviews]] | url = https://books.google.com/?id=KNsdu_Fi3nsC | isbn = 978-0-8092-0001-6 | author1 = Schreiber, Flora Rheta | date = May 1973 | postscript = <!--None-->}}</ref> The book is believed by [[Mark Pendergrast]] and [[Joan Acocella]] to have established the template for the later upsurge in the diagnoses of dissociative identity disorders.<ref>{{cite book | last = Pendergrast | first = M | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-942679-18-0 | title = Victims of memory: sex abuse accusations and shattered lives | publisher = Upper Access Books | pages = [https://books.google.com/books?id=zZgSSh6L4HIC&pg=PA153 153] }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Acocella | first = J | title = Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder | location = New York | publisher = Jossey-Bass | year = 1979 | isbn = 0-7879-4794-6 | authorlink = Joan Acocella}}</ref>
The book had an initial print run of 400,000.<ref>{{Cite book | title = Sybil | publisher = [[Kirkus Reviews]] | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KNsdu_Fi3nsC | isbn = 978-0-8092-0001-6 | author1 = Schreiber, Flora Rheta | date = May 1973 }}</ref> The book is believed by [[Mark Pendergrast]] and [[Joan Acocella]] to have established the template for the later upsurge in the diagnoses of dissociative identity disorders.<ref>{{cite book | last = Pendergrast | first = M | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-942679-18-0 | title = Victims of memory: sex abuse accusations and shattered lives | publisher = Upper Access Books | pages = [https://books.google.com/books?id=zZgSSh6L4HIC&pg=PA153 153] }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Acocella | first = J | title = Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder | location = New York | publisher = Jossey-Bass | year = 1979 | isbn = 0-7879-4794-6 | authorlink = Joan Acocella | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/creatinghysteria00acoc }}</ref>


Audiotapes of recorded conversations between Schreiber and Wilbur were examined by [[Herbert Spiegel]] and later by [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]] academic Robert W. Rieber. Both professionals concluded that Wilbur suggested multiple personalities to her client, whom they saw as a simple "[[female_hysteria|hysteric]]". Their "[[smoking gun]]" proof of this claim is a session tape in which Wilbur is heard describing to Mason the personalities she has already seen Mason exhibit. Spiegel and Rieber also claim that Wilbur and Schreiber fabricated most of the book, which is not a psychiatric case history as would appear in a [[peer-reviewed journal]] but a fictionalized narrative. Many details of the real case were changed or removed to protect Mason's privacy.<ref>{{Cite journal
Audiotapes of recorded conversations between Schreiber and Wilbur were examined by [[Herbert Spiegel]] and later by academic Robert W. Rieber of [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]]. Both concluded that Wilbur suggested multiple personalities to her client, whom they saw as a simple "[[female_hysteria|hysteric]]". Their purported proof of this claim is a session tape in which Wilbur is heard describing to Mason the personalities she has already seen Mason exhibit. Spiegel and Rieber also claim that Wilbur and Schreiber fabricated most of the book. Many details of the real case were changed or removed to protect Mason's privacy.<ref>{{Cite journal
| last1 = Rieber | first1 = R. W.
| last1 = Rieber | first1 = R. W.
| title = Hypnosis, false memory and multiple personality: A trinity of affinity
| title = Hypnosis, false memory and multiple personality: A trinity of affinity
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| pmid = 11623821
| pmid = 11623821
| doi=10.1177/0957154X9901003701
| doi=10.1177/0957154X9901003701
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}}</ref>
}}</ref>


Critics of Spiegel and Rieber's "revelation" ask why they waited until after Schreiber, Wilbur, and Mason were all dead before revealing the tapes, which Spiegel supposedly had in his possession all along.<ref>Paige Allisen, ''Finding Courage to Speak: Women's Survival of Child Abuse.'' Northeastern University Press, 2003.</ref> A review of Rieber's book ''Bifurcation of the Self'' by Mark Lawrence states that Rieber repeatedly distorted the evidence and left out a number of important facts about Mason's case, in order to advance his case against the validity of the diagnosis.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Lawrence |first= M | url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4087/is_200801/ai_n21279759 |volume= 50 |issue= 3 |pages= 273–283 |title= Review of ''Bifurcation of the Self: The history and theory of dissociation and its disorders | journal= American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis |date= May 2008 }}</ref>
Critics of Spiegel and Rieber's "revelation" ask why they waited until after Schreiber, Wilbur, and Mason were all dead before revealing the tapes, which Spiegel supposedly had in his possession all along.<ref>Paige Allisen, ''Finding Courage to Speak: Women's Survival of Child Abuse.'' Northeastern University Press, 2003.</ref> A review of Rieber's book ''Bifurcation of the Self'' by Mark Lawrence states that Rieber repeatedly distorted the evidence and left out a number of important facts about Mason's case, in order to advance his case against the validity of the diagnosis.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Lawrence |first= M | url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4087/is_200801/ai_n21279759 |volume= 50 |issue= 3 |pages= 273–283 |title= Review of ''Bifurcation of the Self: The history and theory of dissociation and its disorders'' | journal= American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis |date= May 2008 }}</ref>


Patrick Suraci, author of ''SYBIL in her own words'', personally acquainted with Shirley Mason and still in touch with members of her family, criticizes Spiegel for what he terms unethical behavior in withholding the tapes. Spiegel also claimed to have made films of himself hypnotizing Mason, supposedly proving that Wilbur had "implanted false memories" in her mind, but when Suraci asked to see the films, Spiegel said he had lost them.<ref>Patrick Suraci, ''Sybil In Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings.'' Abandoned Ladder, 2011.</ref><ref>Patrick Suraci, "[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-suraci/post_2699_b_1152241.html Sybil In Her Own Words]". Review of ''Sybil Exposed'' with commentary about Nathan and Spiegel. ''Huffington Post'', December 15, 2011.</ref>
Patrick Suraci, author of ''SYBIL in her own words'', personally acquainted with Shirley Mason and still in touch with members of her family, criticizes Spiegel for what he terms unethical behavior in withholding the tapes. Spiegel also claimed to have made films of himself hypnotizing Mason, supposedly proving that Wilbur had "implanted false memories" in her mind, but when Suraci asked to see the films, Spiegel said he had lost them.<ref>Patrick Suraci, ''Sybil In Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings.'' Abandoned Ladder, 2011.</ref><ref>Patrick Suraci, "[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-suraci/post_2699_b_1152241.html Sybil In Her Own Words]". Review of ''Sybil Exposed'' with commentary about Nathan and Spiegel. ''Huffington Post'', December 15, 2011.</ref>


The case remains controversial, as Wilbur's psychiatric files were apparently destroyed upon her death,<ref name="preston">Nancy Preston, ''After Sybil: From The Letters of Shirley Mason.'' Infinity, 2013.</ref> and Mason is also deceased.
Wilbur's psychiatric files were destroyed upon her death.<ref name="preston">Nancy Preston, ''After Sybil: From The Letters of Shirley Mason.'' Infinity, 2013.</ref>


In 2011, journalist [[Debbie Nathan]] published a detailed exposé, ''Sybil Exposed'', in which she claims that Wilbur, Mason and Schreiber knowingly perpetrated a fraud in order to create a "Sybil, Inc." business, selling T-shirts, stickers, board games and other paraphernalia. Much of Nathan's book repeats material already covered in the original ''Sybil'', including a 1958 letter in which Mason spoke about making up the "alters" for attention and excitement. In ''Sybil'', this letter was interpreted as an attempt to put difficult, painful therapy on hold.<ref>Schreiber, p. 374.</ref> Nathan claims Schreiber became aware of Mason and her alleged past, writing ''Sybil'' based on stories coaxed from her during therapy, and that this case created an "industry" of [[repressed memory]].<ref>{{cite news |id = XXHERE http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/local/sybil_is_one_big_psych_out_NaIEczKkVakx8ZLLi7GQPI |title= 'Sybil' is one big psych-out |last= Smith |first= K |url= http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sybil_is_one_big_psych_out_NaIEczKkVakx8ZLLi7GQPI#ixzz1bA3UiApO |date= 2011-10-16 |accessdate = 2011-10-18 |work= [[New York Post]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author= Ben Harris |title= Sybil. Inc. |journal=Science|pages= 312 |volume= 334 |date= 21 October 2011 |doi=10.1126/science.1212843}}</ref>
In 2011, journalist [[Debbie Nathan]] published a detailed exposé, ''Sybil Exposed'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204524604576609350972680560 |title=Multiple Personality Deception: The famous patient who inspired the panic was more the victim of her psychiatrist than of mental illness |publisher=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=October 29, 2011 |first=Carol |last=Tavris |authorlink=Carol Tavris |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118001027/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204524604576609350972680560 |archivedate=2015-11-18}}</ref><ref name=s11>{{Cite journal |jstor = 23059333|title = Sybil, Inc|journal = Science|volume = 334|issue = 6054|pages = 312|last1 = Harris|first1 = Ben|year = 2011|doi = 10.1126/science.1212843|pmid = 18212991|bibcode = 2011Sci...334..312H| s2cid=220089080 |url = https://zenodo.org/record/894924}}</ref> in which she claims that Wilbur, Mason and Schreiber knowingly perpetrated a fraud in order to create a "Sybil, Inc." business, selling T-shirts, stickers, board games and other paraphernalia. Much of Nathan's book repeats material already covered in the original ''Sybil'', including a 1958 letter in which Mason spoke about making up the "alters" for attention and excitement. In ''Sybil'', this letter was interpreted as an attempt to put difficult, painful therapy on hold.<ref>Schreiber, p. 374.</ref> Nathan claims Schreiber became aware of Mason and her alleged past, writing ''Sybil'' based on stories coaxed from her during therapy, and that this case created an "industry" of [[repressed memory]].<ref name=s11/><ref>{{cite news |title= 'Sybil' is one big psych-out |last= Smith |first= K |url= http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sybil_is_one_big_psych_out_NaIEczKkVakx8ZLLi7GQPI#ixzz1bA3UiApO |date= 2011-10-16 |accessdate = 2011-10-18 |work= [[New York Post]] }}</ref>


In 2013, artist-journalist Nancy Preston published ''After Sybil'', a personal memoir which includes facsimile reproductions of Mason's personal letters to her, along with color plates of her paintings. According to Preston, Mason taught art at Ohio's [[Rio Grande College]], where Preston was a student. The two became close friends and corresponded until a few days before Mason's death. In the letters, Mason confirmed that she had had multiple personalities.<ref name="preston"/>
In 2013, artist-journalist Nancy Preston published ''After Sybil'', a personal memoir which includes facsimile reproductions of Mason's personal letters to her, along with color plates of her paintings. According to Preston, Mason taught art at Ohio's [[Rio Grande College]], where Preston was a student. The two became close friends and corresponded until a few days before Mason's death. In the letters, Mason confirmed that she had had multiple personalities.<ref name="preston"/>
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==Film adaptations==
==Film adaptations==
There have been two film adaptations, both made for television:
There have been two film adaptations, both made for television:
* ''[[Sybil (1976 film)]]'', an NBC TV-movie starring [[Sally Field]].
* [[Sybil (1976 film)|''Sybil'' (1976 film)]], an NBC TV-movie starring [[Sally Field]].
* ''[[Sybil (2007 film)]]'', a CBS TV-movie starring [[Tammy Blanchard]].
* [[Sybil (2007 film)|''Sybil'' (2007 film)]], a CBS TV-movie starring [[Tammy Blanchard]].

==In computer security==
In [[computer security]], a [[Sybil attack]] is one wherein a [[reputation system]] is subverted by creating multiple identities.


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Sybil attack]]
* [[Sybil attack]]
* [[Chris Costner Sizemore]]
* [[Chris Costner Sizemore]]


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}


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This article is about the non-fiction book about Shirley Ardell Mason's treatment for dissociative identity disorder. For the novel by Benjamin Disraeli, see Sybil (novel).
Sybil
Cover of the first edition
AuthorFlora Rheta Schreiber
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHenry Regnery Company
Publication date
1973
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages359
ISBN0-8092-0001-5
OCLC57119767

Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur.

The book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in 1976 and again in 2007. There have also been books published after the fact, challenging the facts of Sybil's therapy sessions. A few examples of these are SYBIL in her own words, Sybil Exposed, and After Sybil.

Summary

Mason is given the pseudonym "Sybil" by her therapist to protect her privacy. In 1998, Sigmund Freud historian Peter J. Swales discovered Sybil's true identity.[1] Originally in treatment for social anxiety and memory loss, after extended therapy involving amobarbital and hypnosis interviews, Sybil manifests sixteen personalities. Wilbur encouraged Sybil's various selves to communicate and reveal information about her life. Wilbur writes that Sybil's multiple personality disorder was a result of the severe physical and sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her mother, Hattie.

Described personalities

The book begins with a list of Sybil's "alters", together with the year in which each appeared to have dissociated from the central personality. The names of these selves were also changed to ensure privacy.

  • Sybil Isabel Dorsett (1923), the main personality
  • Victoria Antoinette Scharleau (1926), nicknamed Vicky, self-assured and sophisticated young French girl
  • Peggy Lou Baldwin (1926), assertive, enthusiastic, and often angry
  • Peggy Ann Baldwin (1926), a counterpart of Peggy Lou but more fearful than angry
  • Mary Lucinda Saunders Dorsett (1933), a thoughtful, contemplative, and maternal homebody
  • Marcia Lynn Dorsett (1927), an extremely emotional writer and painter
  • Vanessa Gail Dorsett (1935), intensely dramatic, fun-loving, and a talented musician.
  • Mike Dorsett (1928), one of Sybil's two male selves, a builder and a carpenter
  • Sid Dorsett (1928), the second of Sybil's two male selves, a carpenter and a general handyman. Sid took his name from Sybil's initials (Sybil Isabelle Dorsett).
  • Nancy Lou Ann Baldwin (date undetermined), interested in politics as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and intensely afraid of Roman Catholics
  • Sybil Ann Dorsett (1928), listless to the point of neurasthenia
  • Ruthie Dorsett (date undetermined), a baby and one of the less developed selves
  • Clara Dorsett (date undetermined), intensely religious and highly critical of Sybil
  • Helen Dorsett (1929), intensely afraid but determined to achieve fulfillment
  • Marjorie Dorsett (1928), serene, vivacious, and quick to laugh
  • The Blonde (1946), a nameless perpetual teenager with an optimistic outlook

The book's narrative describes Sybil's selves gradually becoming co-conscious, able to communicate and share responsibilities, and having musical compositions and art published under their various names. Wilbur attempts to integrate Sybil's various selves, first convincing them via hypnosis that they are all the same age, then encouraging them to merge. At the book's end, a new, optimistic self (called "The Blonde") emerges, preceding Sybil's final integration into a single, whole individual with full knowledge of her past and present life.

Controversy

The book had an initial print run of 400,000.[2] The book is believed by Mark Pendergrast and Joan Acocella to have established the template for the later upsurge in the diagnoses of dissociative identity disorders.[3][4]

Audiotapes of recorded conversations between Schreiber and Wilbur were examined by Herbert Spiegel and later by academic Robert W. Rieber of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Both concluded that Wilbur suggested multiple personalities to her client, whom they saw as a simple "hysteric". Their purported proof of this claim is a session tape in which Wilbur is heard describing to Mason the personalities she has already seen Mason exhibit. Spiegel and Rieber also claim that Wilbur and Schreiber fabricated most of the book. Many details of the real case were changed or removed to protect Mason's privacy.[5]

Critics of Spiegel and Rieber's "revelation" ask why they waited until after Schreiber, Wilbur, and Mason were all dead before revealing the tapes, which Spiegel supposedly had in his possession all along.[6] A review of Rieber's book Bifurcation of the Self by Mark Lawrence states that Rieber repeatedly distorted the evidence and left out a number of important facts about Mason's case, in order to advance his case against the validity of the diagnosis.[7]

Patrick Suraci, author of SYBIL in her own words, personally acquainted with Shirley Mason and still in touch with members of her family, criticizes Spiegel for what he terms unethical behavior in withholding the tapes. Spiegel also claimed to have made films of himself hypnotizing Mason, supposedly proving that Wilbur had "implanted false memories" in her mind, but when Suraci asked to see the films, Spiegel said he had lost them.[8][9]

Wilbur's psychiatric files were destroyed upon her death.[10]

In 2011, journalist Debbie Nathan published a detailed exposé, Sybil Exposed,[11][12] in which she claims that Wilbur, Mason and Schreiber knowingly perpetrated a fraud in order to create a "Sybil, Inc." business, selling T-shirts, stickers, board games and other paraphernalia. Much of Nathan's book repeats material already covered in the original Sybil, including a 1958 letter in which Mason spoke about making up the "alters" for attention and excitement. In Sybil, this letter was interpreted as an attempt to put difficult, painful therapy on hold.[13] Nathan claims Schreiber became aware of Mason and her alleged past, writing Sybil based on stories coaxed from her during therapy, and that this case created an "industry" of repressed memory.[12][14]

In 2013, artist-journalist Nancy Preston published After Sybil, a personal memoir which includes facsimile reproductions of Mason's personal letters to her, along with color plates of her paintings. According to Preston, Mason taught art at Ohio's Rio Grande College, where Preston was a student. The two became close friends and corresponded until a few days before Mason's death. In the letters, Mason confirmed that she had had multiple personalities.[10]

Film adaptations

There have been two film adaptations, both made for television:

In computer security

In computer security, a Sybil attack is one wherein a reputation system is subverted by creating multiple identities.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Identity of 'Sybil' Finally Revealed," Orlando Sentinel, Dec 26, 1998.
  2. ^ Schreiber, Flora Rheta (May 1973). Sybil. Kirkus Reviews. ISBN 978-0-8092-0001-6.
  3. ^ Pendergrast, M (1996). Victims of memory: sex abuse accusations and shattered lives. Upper Access Books. pp. 153. ISBN 0-942679-18-0.
  4. ^ Acocella, J (1979). Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder. New York: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-4794-6.
  5. ^ Rieber, R. W. (1999). "Hypnosis, false memory and multiple personality: A trinity of affinity". History of Psychiatry. 10 (37): 3–11. doi:10.1177/0957154X9901003701. PMID 11623821. S2CID 41343058.
  6. ^ Paige Allisen, Finding Courage to Speak: Women's Survival of Child Abuse. Northeastern University Press, 2003.
  7. ^ Lawrence, M (May 2008). "Review of Bifurcation of the Self: The history and theory of dissociation and its disorders". American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. 50 (3): 273–283.
  8. ^ Patrick Suraci, Sybil In Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings. Abandoned Ladder, 2011.
  9. ^ Patrick Suraci, "Sybil In Her Own Words". Review of Sybil Exposed with commentary about Nathan and Spiegel. Huffington Post, December 15, 2011.
  10. ^ a b Nancy Preston, After Sybil: From The Letters of Shirley Mason. Infinity, 2013.
  11. ^ Tavris, Carol (October 29, 2011). "Multiple Personality Deception: The famous patient who inspired the panic was more the victim of her psychiatrist than of mental illness". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2015-11-18.
  12. ^ a b Harris, Ben (2011). "Sybil, Inc". Science. 334 (6054): 312. Bibcode:2011Sci...334..312H. doi:10.1126/science.1212843. JSTOR 23059333. PMID 18212991. S2CID 220089080.
  13. ^ Schreiber, p. 374.
  14. ^ Smith, K (2011-10-16). "'Sybil' is one big psych-out". New York Post. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
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