Sybil /
Flora Rheta Schreiber.
- 1st oversize mass market ed.
- New York : Grand Central,
- xx, 492 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
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.