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The incredible true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of child abuse who was diagnosed with the first multiple personality disorder, reveals that she played host to sixteen separate and distinct personalities before making the long journey to recovery. Reissue.
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Characters/People edit
- Sybil: Woman who experiences "lost time" due to the existence of multiple personalities of which she is unaware.
- Dr. Cornelia Wilbur: The psychologist who sees Sybil and who ultimately discovers and diagnoses Sybil with multiple personalities
- Victoria Antionette Scharleau: a blonde French girl who is sophisticated and self-assured, the "Keeper" of the personalities, the first; "born" 1926
- Peggy Lou: breaks glass, has a pug nose with a Dutch haircut; "born" 1926
- Mary Lucinda Dorsett: Named after the grandmother, modeled after said grandmother, very religious
- Vanessa Gail Dorsett: Is always with Marcia; tall, willowy redhead with light brown eyes and an expressive oval face; "born" in 1935
- Marcia Lynn Dorsett: is always with Vanessa; a brunette with a side part who is slightly shorter than Vanessa, with gray eyes in a sheild-shaped face; "born" in 1927
First Sentence edit
The crash of glass made her head throb.
Table of Contents edit
The Family Tree: The Hierarchy of the Sixteen Selves
Cast of Characters and Dates of "Birth"
Preface: Sybil
Acknowledgments
Part I: Being
1. The incomprehensible Clock
2. Wartime Within
3. The Couch and the Serpent
4. The Other Girl
5. Peggy Lou Baldwin
6. Victoria Antoinette Scharleau
7. Why
Part II: Becoming
8. Willow Corners
9. Yesterday Was Never
10. Thieves of Time
11. The Search for the Center
12. Silent Witness
13. The Terror of Laughter
14. Hattie
15. Battered Child
16. Hattie's Fury Has a Beginning
17. Willard
Part III: Unbecoming
18. Confrontation and Verification
19. The Boys
20. The Voice of Orthodoxy
21. The Wine of Wrath
22. The Clock Comprehensible
23. The Retreating White Coat
24. Suicide
Part IV: Reentry
25. Beginning to Remember
26. Independent Futures
27. Prisoners in Their Body
28. Journey to One
29. They Are Me, Too
30. Hate Heals
31. Ramon
32. One
Epilogue: The New Sybil's New Time
Psychological Index
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Basis Of A Movie. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Flora Rheta Schreiber (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Regnery
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1973
ISBN: 0713907452
Page Count: 414
Publisher: Regnery
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1973
ISBN: 0713907452
Page Count: 414
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- Dewey: 616.858209
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