The story of Sybil, a woman who developed 16 personalities after alleged abuse, captivated millions in the 1970s but was later exposed as largely fabricated ...

Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book Sybil. The book and subsequent film caused an enormous spike in reported cases of multiple personality disorder.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Was one of the world's most famous medical cases a mistake? Or, worse yet, a hoax? Author Debbie Nathan's book "Sybil Exposed" explores the history of the Minnesota woman who became a ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Was one of the world's most famous medical cases a mistake? Or, worse yet, a hoax? Author Debbie Nathan's book "Sybil Exposed" explores the history of the Minnesota woman who became a ...

Three decades after publication of the blockbuster "Sybil," Debbie Nathan began her research into the world's most celebrated case of multiple personality disorder. Nathan started her work at the John ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sybil was a pseudonym given to Shirley Mason in a 1973 work of nonfiction by Flora Rheta Schreiber, which examined the young woman ...

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