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Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case 1st Edition

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Free Press; 1 edition (June 12, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1439168288
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439168288
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (184 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsIt's About Time
By David Eichman on October 26, 2011
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I first read SYBIL in 1976 when I was told, the soon to be aired TV movies principle character, Sybil, was in fact, Shirley Mason, my grandmothers step daughter. Closer to home, Shirley\Sybil was my babysitter in the late 40's and early 50's, in Denver Co. The Masons had been friends of the family for years before my Grandma, Florence, married Walter Mason, Shirley's dad. I especially remember Shirley taking requests to draw cute pictures for my older brother and me.

When my grandmother died in 1985, I retrieved about 200 letters destined for the trash, written by Shirley to my Grandma from 1954 - 1974. After reading the letters, lets just say there were discrepancies with the book, SYBIL.

Subsequently several researchers contacted me, such as Peter Swales, expressing concern over the ethics and rampant diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID). Debbie Nathan is not the first to come across this controversy, but she is the first to present it to the public, since Peter Swales and Mikkel Borch-Jacobson elected to publish it in a more academic forum in France.

Debbie Nathan has been extremely accurate and careful with the documents I have entrusted to her. She doesn't claim to be, or have to be a psychotherapist to be a good investigative reporter. To me that's just what she is, and in some ways better equipped to deal with this controversy.

SYBIL EXPOSSED is not written by a wanna-be psychotherapist dispensing her biased opinions. This is a 282 page condensation of facts gleaned from documents, letters, case files, and interviews, most of which have only been open to the public, or otherwise available, for just the last 13 years.

I am grateful for such a compilation.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsHard to separate the truth from the author's bias
By abt1950 on March 8, 2013
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This book claims to be an expose of Cornelia Wilbur, the psychiatrist who treated Sybil, and Flora Rheta Schreiber, the journalist whose book made Sybil a household name. Nathan makes some good points, but she is not the first person to have questioned Sybil's diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder (now DID). The author has done extensive research, which is a plus, but the book is marred by her obvious contempt for Wilbur and Schreiber. Much of the book is character assassination. Wilbur comes off as an opportunist and Schreiber as an ugly, emotionally insecure woman. For example, Nathan criticizes Schreiber's taste in clothing and gives intimate details of her sex life. This doesn't belong in a book that claims to be impartial. They're not relevant to the case she's trying to make. Nathan's vitriol undermines her case that Sybil's diagnosis was manufactured to sell the book. It's impossible to separate the author's bias from her interpretation of what actually happened. "Sybil Exposed" is a disappointing book about a fascinating subject.
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4.0 out of 5 starsVERY interesting! This book exposes at lot that the ...
By Rochelle Barozzi on January 6, 2016
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VERY interesting! This book exposes at lot that the original book and movie did not. The strange unhealthy relationship the Psychologist had with Shirley after treatment is just not done. It is NOT OK for a Psch Doc to become "close friends" after treatment. Close friends who live together?? Im not even saying there was anything gay going on. But that is totally against treatment and a psychs protocol. That alone and with how involved the person who wrote the book....brings up many red flags that are completely valid. If you read Sybil, you really need to read this book to get BOTH sides to her story. Then it is up to you to decide what is truth and what was forced.
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3.0 out of 5 starsLeft me wondering what the truth is.
By kris morgan on July 20, 2015
Format: Hardcover
I read Sybil many years ago as a teenager and was totally fascinated with the original book. When I saw Sybil Exposed, I decided to see what the 'true' story was. I tried to read with an open mind, but to me Nash comes across as a jealous woman, someone who came into the story with preconceived notions. I admit that I may be reading this whole thing wrong, but having the book come out after all of the people involved are dead, is not fair.
I do not honestly have an opinion as to whether or not Sybil had all of the personalities or if she was just a victim of psychoanalysis. I just pray that all involved​ now rest in peace.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThis book needed to be written.
By Ariana Morris on November 28, 2015
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I'm kind of disgusted by the reviews of this book that declare MPD is real and Debbie Nathan has no education and no Psyciatric degree to give her the knowledge and right to question the "Sybil" case.

Knowledge comes from all sorts of places, and when combined with a healthy dose of skepticism and diligence, gosh, I know it's shocking, but people WITHOUT a psychiatric degree can write intelligently and correctly about psychiatric topics.

I've been seeing psychiatrists for 25 years and I have news for folks-- they're far from infallible. In fact a significant portion of them aren't fit to be counseling or medicating anyone. That degree doesn't amount to much when the person behind it is not intellectually honest, or they're driven by their own agendas, prejudices and biases.

On the other hand an honest and intelligent investigator with an interest in psychology can actually well surpass the comprehension of some of the psychiatrists I've been forced to deal with by crummy insurance.

In addition, this proclamation that only a psychiatrist or degree'd professional is fit to write about a topic or critically examine it is obtuse. So you're saying anyone who writes about a subject needs to have a degree in it, all official on the wall? Do you realize how much that would set back journalism? A good journalist approaches a subject critically and intelligently, thoroughly researches, and forms an opinion. If we only had experts in MPD writing about MPD, we'd never advance in our understanding of the condition, in as much as it exists, and how it needs to be treated.

The mind is of interest to us all. It is relevant to us all.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRead the real facts behind the 1970s book and movies about Sybil, who...

Excellent book - so thoroughly researched and documented (35 pages of references and sources). Some of these reviews here are less than interesting. E.g. Read more

Published 22 days ago by Sandy Pirwitz
5.0 out of 5 starsVery good book.

Must read for anyone that read "Sybil". Very good book.

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1.0 out of 5 starsHow is the view from LA La Land?

You don't know how badly I have wanted to say that to a whole lot of people on a whole lot of subjects including this one. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Emmy365
5.0 out of 5 starsLoss of innocence

Beautifully written book about failed clinical practice in the 1980s and 1990s. Mental health workers need to objectively evaluste their work. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Howard Garb
1.0 out of 5 starsand I don't appreciate people staring at this tragedy like it's a...

Won't read the book and here's why. I have personally seen someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Tess
1.0 out of 5 starsIt's all nothing but Speculation.

I couldn't get through this book at all. Who is Debbie Nathan anyway, and what is she doing diagnosing the mental ailment of a woman through researching and writing about her? Read more

Published 10 months ago by J.K.
4.0 out of 5 starsA needed expose

Long overdue and very important follow-up investigation to the Sybil story that we all bought hook, line, and sinker in the 80s. Very informative.

Published 11 months ago by 50-something
4.0 out of 5 starsThe sad and important truth about a three-way codependency

Who didn't read the book Sybil or see the movie? Well, the story is complete hokum. A confluence of events surrounding three women: the patient, the doctor, and the journalist. Read more

Published 12 months ago by mandy
5.0 out of 5 starsGood book for your home library

Well researched. Good book for your home library.

Published 12 months ago by Headless Horseman
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A riveting story and a particularly fascinating look at the very destructive way women were treated personally and professionally until the very recent past. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Mary Hesse

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