http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141514464/real-sybil-admits-multiple-personalities-were-fake

Turns out the gal who was the basis for the novel Sybil, about a woman with multiple personalities, was faking it all along.


Multiple personalities-Fake
Stories about the enemas-Fake
Stories about insertion of, uh, foreign objects-Fake


Bummer.  Well, sorta.  I guess this means she was not all that messed up after all.  :-\\

wonder if that means that Sally Field and the people in the other three winning categories have to give back their Emmy's    ;)

wonder if that means that Sally Field and the people in the other three winning categories have to give back their Emmy's    ;)


No, it means they earned those Emmy's even MORE because they fooled us all into thinking it was a true story.  :D

No, it means they earned those Emmy's even MORE because they fooled us all into thinking it was a true story.   :D



that makes sense...

She was faking the big O!  ;D

Oh yeah, Sybil is a bunch of crap.  The case was suspect from the get-go.

I love that movie though.  It's great television.  

Multiple Personality Disorder is no longer recognized by WHO statistical classifications or the DSM.  The currently recognized condition most closely resembling multiple personality is Dissociative identity disorder.  Common symptoms are memory loss, multiple and dissimilar personality traits, somatic disturbances, volatile moods, and fugue states.  However, discrete and entirely developed multiple personalities are almost entirely fictitious.  "Sybil" made the diagnosis (and self-diagnosis) popular, but I have only read of a few documented cases, and Shirley Mason (aka. "Sybil") wasn't one of them.

"Sybil" also popularized the notion of "repressed memory," particularly pertaining to child sexual abuse.  Malicious clinicians have gone so far as to draw out such claims in suggestible patients and accused abusers have actually gone to prison as long as 40 years after the alleged abuse.  Even when claims made via "repressed memory" syndrome are not demonstrably false, the evidence is laughable from a legal standpoint.  These practices have been largely discredited and the courts treat them more suspiciously than twenty or thirty years ago.

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wonder if that means that Sally Field and the people in the other three winning categories have to give back their Emmy's    ;)


Yes...it was like Victor, Victoria.  A Woman pretending to be a woman pretending to be a multiple personality dosordered person.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141514464/real-sybil-admits-multiple-personalities-were-fake

Turns out the gal who was the basis for the novel Sybil, about a woman with multiple personalities, was faking it all along.


Multiple personalities-Fake
Stories about the enemas-Fake
Stories about insertion of, uh, foreign objects-Fake


Bummer.  Well, sorta.  I guess this means she was not all that messed up after all.   :-\\


Was she faking her gender too?  ::)