Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities

Schreiber, Flora

ISBN 10: 0241967635 ISBN 13: 9780241967638

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2016

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A controversial cult classic, Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is the extraordinary story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder.'How are you today?' the doctor asked. 'I'm fine', was the reply. 'But Sybil isn't., She was so sick she couldn't come. So I came instead.'A collaboration between journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber and Sybil's psychiatrist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, Sybil is the story of a woman with sixteen separate personalities, and was instrumental in influencing the definition and diagnosis of multiple personality disorder., Sybil's diagnosis has since been called into question - but, forty years after it was first published, her story remains a gripping and disturbing account of one woman's struggle for mental stability and happiness.

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The story of Sybil is a psychological masterpiece . . . enthralling from the first scene to the last (Lucy Freeman)

Astonishing book . . . It forces you to look at yourself and the people around you in a new way (Doris Lessing)

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241967635
• ISBN 13: 9780241967638
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432