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characters Sybil Exposed ¸ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ✓ ❰Download❯ ✤ Sybil Exposed Author Debbie Nathan – Dogsalonbristol.co.uk 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 Sally FielT her psychiatrist said caused her MPD Sybil Exposed uses investigative journalism to tell a fascinating tale that reads like fiction but is fact Nathan has followed an enormous trail of papers records photos and tapes to unearth the lives and passions of these three women The Sybil archive became available to the public only recently and Nathan examined all of it and provides proof that the story was an elaborate fraud albeit one that the perpetrators may have half believed Before Sybil was published there had been fewer than known cases of MPD within just a few years after than people would be diagnosed with it 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 It is the story of how one modest young woman’s life turned psychiatry on its head and radically changed the course of therapy and our culture as well. Back in 1974 I read a book called Sybil Starting in 1973 and

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E imaginative journalist who spun their story into bestseller gold From horrendously irresponsible therapeutic practices Sybil’s psychiatrist often brought an electroshock machine to Sybil’s apartment and climbed into bed with her while administering the treatment to calculated business decisions under an entity they named Sybil Inc the women signed a contract designating a three way split of profits from the book and its spin offs including board games tee shirts and dolls the story Nathan unfurls is full of over the top behavior Sybil’s psychiatrist driven by undisciplined idealism and galloping professional ambition subjected the young woman to years of antipsychotics psychedelics uppers and downers including an untold number of injections with Pentothal once known as “truth serum” but now widely recognized to provoke fantasies It was during these “treatments” that Sybil produced rambling garbled and probably “false memory”–based narratives of the hideous child abuse tha. I was uite taken with the book Sybil when I read it years ago