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Sybil / The true story of a woman possessed by 16 separate personalities, AND A SECOND BOOK, Sybil Exposed / The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Published by Henry Regnery Company, and a second book from Free Press, a dividion of Simon & Schuster, Inc., Chicago, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809200015ISBN 13: 9780809200016
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket design for "Sybil" by Charles Edmondson; jacket design for "Sybil Exposed" by Eric Fuentecilla (illustrator). We list the IBSN for the 1973 "Sybil," a "very good" octavo in brown (faux?) leather boards with some small cuts & bangs to edges of front board, in a "good only" jacket with considerable tears & associated spider-webbing to the spine corners. Not price clipped; original $8.95 price showing. The ISBN for "Sybil Exposed," an as-new octavo hardcover in a near-fine jacket, is 978-1-4391-6827-1. In "Sybil Exposed," award-winning journalist Debbie Nathan exposes the tale of the "woman with 16 personalities" (art teacher Shirley Ardell Mason, 1923-1998) as "an elaborate fraud -- albeit one that the perpetrators may have half-believed." From "horrendously irresponsible therapeutic practices -- Sybil's psychiatrist" (Cornelia B. Wilbur, 1908-1992) "often brought an electroshock machine to Sybil's apartment and climbed into bed with her while administering the treatment -- to calculated business decisions -- under an entity they named Sybil Inc, the women" (the willing patient, the ambitious shrink, and imaginative journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber, 1918-1988) "who spun their story into bestseller gold . . . signed a contract designating a three-way split of profits from the book and the spin-offs, including board games, tee shirts, and dolls.) . . . Sybil's psychiatrist, "driven by undisciplined idealism and galloping professional ambition, subjected the young woman to years of antipsychotics, psychedelics, uppers and downers, including an untold number of injections with Pentothal, once known as 'truth serum' but now widely recognized to provoke fantasies." The result? Before "Sybil" was published, fewer than 200 cases of "Multiple Personality Disorder" had been diagnosed. Within just a few years after? 40,000 cases. The original "Sybil" at 359 pp. including index. The second book, "Sybil Exposed," at 298 pp. including Index. The pair of books on the same topic (though reaching very different conclusions) now reduced from $24.
