Sybil - The True Story of a Woman Possessed By Sixteen Separate Personalities

A controversial cult classic, Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is the extraordinary story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder.br>br>''How are you today?'' the doctor asked. ''I''m fine'', was the reply. ''But Sybil isn''t. She was so sick she couldn''t come. So I came instead.''br>br>A collaboration between journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber and Sybil''s psychiatrist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, Sybil is the story of a woman with sixteen separate personalities, and was instrumental in influencing the definition and diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. br>br>Sybil''s diagnosis has since been called into question - but, forty years after it was first published, her story remains a gripping and disturbing account of one woman''s struggle for mental stability and happiness.>

Product details

• Authors: Flora Schreiber, Flora Rheta Schreiber, Schreiber Flora
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.10.2013
• EAN: 9780241967638
• ISBN: 978-0-241-96763-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)