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Axis. 13 Lansdowne St. Boston. 262-2437. Everclear and Sybil Vein on Saturday, March 25. the Repercussions on Tuesday, March...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: Not at Harvard | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

Freud was booked solid. Sybil was shifting personalities. And Robert Lewis Stevenson was too busy mixing metaphors...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: W. Cagers Dominate Yale, 83-54 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...cases the therapists conclude, and eventually convince the patients through suggestion, that the repressed memories of childhood abuse have caused them to "dissociate." As a result, they appear to develop multiple- personality disorder, the strange and, until recently, rare condition brought to wide public attention by the 1973 book, Sybil, which describes the condition of a woman who develops several strikingly different but interchangeable personas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repressed-Memory Therapy: Lies of the Mind | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...wife and their seven-year-old daughter Susan live in grand isolation in a spacious brick house atop a hill overlooking Angola, the sense of privacy is illusory. "He can't even see Susan's swim meet without someone saying, 'Hey, boss, I've got a problem,' " says Sybil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Decency Into Hell: JOHN WHITLEY | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

Whitley is not one to kick back with the guys. Free time means family time: computer games with Susan, gangster movies with Sybil, history books. He speaks from experience when he says, "If you don't keep family in mind in this business, you lose them." A first marriage fell apart during his early years in corrections, when he had not yet learned to leave the strains of the job at the office. "I had a bad temper," he says. "I'd carry it home and let it rip." Now he refuses to discuss office problems at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Decency Into Hell: JOHN WHITLEY | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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