![]() ![]() Raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist, Shirley Mason found sin at every turn. But in Debbie Nathan's compulsively readable Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case, the whole thing is proved as a massive fraud perpetrated by an ambitious therapist, a lonely young woman and a determined writer.Īfter some intrepid sleuths outed the real Sybil as Midwesterner Shirley Mason, Mason's medical records were unsealed, allowing Nathan unprecedented access to her treatment, history and the sad fallout from her pseudonymous fame. Women everywhere suddenly remembered, with the help of their eager therapists, childhood abuse and "fugue states," in which they lost all memory of what they did or said. ![]() Sally Field became an actress to reckon with in the 1976 made-for-TV movie, breaking free from the shackles of The Flying Nun. ![]() The case of Sybil, the pseudonym for a young woman suffering from 17 multiple personalities as the result of some Gothic child abuse at the hands of her monstrous mother, became a cultural touchstone almost immediately upon the 1973 publication of Flora Rheta Schreiber's nonfiction account of her treatment. ![]()
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