Multiple Personalities Were Fake
Real Sybil Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake.
When Sybil first came out in 1973, not only did it shoot to the top of the best-seller lists – it manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon. The book was billed as the true story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder. Within a few years of its publication, reported cases of multiple personality disorder – now known as dissociative identity disorder – leapt from fewer than 100 to thousands. But in a new book, Sybil Exposed, writer Debbie Nathan argues that most of the story is based on a lie.
“Once she got this diagnosis she started generating more and more personalities,” Nathan says. “She had babies, she had little boys, she had teenage girls. She wasn’t faking. I think a better way to talk about what Shirley was doing was that she was acceding to a demand that she have this problem.”
Credit: @Krelnik on Twitter and whatstheharm.net (Tim Farley)
At one point, Mason admitted to her psychologist she was faking, to no avail. The psychologist was in too deep to accept that it was all untrue. Another sad case of people harmed and fooled by very unscientific psychology.
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