Sybil / Flora Rheta Schreiber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Grand Central, Edition: 1st oversize mass market edDescription: xx, 492 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780446550123
  • 0446550124
  • 9780808505174
  • 0808505173
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.852360092 23
LOC classification:
  • RC569.5.M8 S37 2009
Contents:
pt. 1. Being : The incomprehensible clock ; Wartime within ; The couch and the serpent ; The other girl ; Peggy Lou Baldwin ; Victoria Antoinette Scharleau ; Why -- pt. 2. Becoming : Willow corners ; Yesterday was never ; Thieves of time ; The search for the center ; Silent witnesses ; The terror of laughter ; Hattie ; Battered child ; Hattie's fury has a beginning ; Willard -- pt. 3. Unbecoming : Confrontation and verification ; The boys ; The voice of orthodoxy ; The wine of wrath ; The clock comprehensible ; The retreating white coat ; Suicide -- pt. 4. Reentry : Beginning to remember ; Independent futures ; Prisoners in their body ; Journey to one ; They are me, too ; Hate heals ; Ramon ; One -- Epilogue : The new Sybil's new time.
Summary: This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse, victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.
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Includes psychological index, reading group guide, and discussion questions.

pt. 1. Being : The incomprehensible clock ; Wartime within ; The couch and the serpent ; The other girl ; Peggy Lou Baldwin ; Victoria Antoinette Scharleau ; Why -- pt. 2. Becoming : Willow corners ; Yesterday was never ; Thieves of time ; The search for the center ; Silent witnesses ; The terror of laughter ; Hattie ; Battered child ; Hattie's fury has a beginning ; Willard -- pt. 3. Unbecoming : Confrontation and verification ; The boys ; The voice of orthodoxy ; The wine of wrath ; The clock comprehensible ; The retreating white coat ; Suicide -- pt. 4. Reentry : Beginning to remember ; Independent futures ; Prisoners in their body ; Journey to one ; They are me, too ; Hate heals ; Ramon ; One -- Epilogue : The new Sybil's new time.

This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse, victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.

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