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...years, Sybil remained oblivious of their existence; she knew only that she blacked out and suffered terrible amnesiac lapses. Once, in her fifth-grade classroom, she came back to herself in the midst of an arithmetic drill and thought she should be in the third grade...
...extent that multiple personalities are understood, it seems that Sybil's mind began creating alternative personages as a defense against her mother, who was a sadistic, child-battering schizophrenic. Brilliant (with an IQ of 170), yet mousy and depleted, Sybil finally embarked on psychoanalysis. Her doctor never quite knew which of her 16 personalities would turn up. After she underwent eleven years of analysis, treatments with sodium pentothal and hypnosis, the tribe of various selves merged into one coherent Sybil...
Author Schreiber, a former psychiatry editor of Science Digest, says that she met Sybil Dorset (a pseudonym) in 1962 through Sybil's psychoanalyst, Cornelia Wilbur. Her bestselling book is fascinating, but also troubling. As a kind of psychiatric New Journalism, it has a fictive, popularized vividness that undermIné medical credibility...