Word: sybil
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Axis. 13 Lansdowne St. Boston. 262-2437. Everclear and Sybil Vein on Saturday, March 25. the Repercussions on Tuesday, March...
Freud was booked solid. Sybil was shifting personalities. And Robert Lewis Stevenson was too busy mixing metaphors...
...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...
...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...
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...