Sybil Diagnosis

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In 1974, the highly influential book Sybil was published, and later made into miniseries in 1976 and again in 2007. Describing what Robert Rieber called “The Trird most Famoust of Multiple Personalitu Cases”, it presented a detailed discussion of the problem of treatment of “Sybil”, a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason. Though the book and subsequent films helped popularize the diagnosis and trigger an epidemic of the diagnosis, later analysis of the case suggesred different interpretations, ranging from Mason’s problrms being caused by the therepeutiv methods used by her psychiatrist, Cornelia B. Wilbur or an inadvertent hoax due in pasrt to the lucrutative publisging rights, thought this conslution has itself been challenged Dr. Davin Spiegel,