Peggy Ann Baldwin (1926), a counterpart of Peggy Lou but more fearful than angry.Peggy Lou Baldwin (1926), assertive, enthusiastic, and often angry.Victoria Antoinette Scharleau (1926), nicknamed Vicky, self-assured and sophisticated young French girl.Sybil Isabel Dorsett (1923), the main personality.The names of these selves were also changed to ensure privacy. The book begins with a list of Sybil's 'alters', together with the year in which each appeared to have dissociated from the central personality. Wilbur writes that Sybil's multiple personality disorder was a result of the severe physical and sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her mother, Hattie. Wilbur encouraged Sybil's various selves to communicate and reveal information about her life. Originally in treatment for social anxiety and memory loss, after extended therapy involving amobarbital and hypnosis interviews, Sybil manifests sixteen personalities. In 1998, Sigmund Freud historian Peter J.

Mason is given the pseudonym 'Sybil' by her therapist to protect her privacy. A few examples of these are SYBIL in her own words, Sybil Exposed, and After Sybil. There have also been books published after the fact, challenging the facts of Sybil's therapy sessions. The book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in 1976 and again in 2007. Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B.

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