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"In this startling expose...Nathan serves up a tale just as shocking as the famed original."--"Publisher's Weekly", starred review"Debbie Nathan's fine, insistent mind will stop at nothing to get to the truth behind Sybil, no how many walls are put up-- Her research is beyond compare"."" --Susie Bright, author of "Big Sex Little Death""I've long considered Debbie Nathan to be the most important and unsung writer working in America today. "Sybil Exposed" affirms her brilliance. Using a fierce blend of investigative journalism and cultural criticism, she exposes multiple personality disorder as yet another lurid myth cooked up by the collective unconscious of our popular culture. The book is an astonishing achievement." -- Steve Almond, author of "Candyfreak" and "God Bless America""Debbie Nathan's "Sybil Exposed" is a first-rate historical detective story recreating the lives of the three protagonists of one of the most popular accounts of a psychiatric patient in American history. The sixteen personalities ascribed to "Sybil" set the medical and legal tone for discussions of the 'epidemic' of child abuse at the end of the 20th century as well as the psychological damage done to its survivors. Nathan shows how the subject of the study, her psychiatrist, as well as the author of the book invented a biography to explain something that never existed: the multiple personalities of the patient as well as their cause. Any reader captivated by our contemporary "first-hand" accounts of mental illness, should read this account that illustrates how the demands of the readers at any historical moment shape such accounts and make them seem truer than true." --Sander L. Gilman, author of SEEING THE INSANE Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of"A compelling account of the creation, packaging, and selling of this case of medical and journalistic malpractice." --"Science""A massive undertaking of research that teases apart fact from fiction to reveal an even more interesting and educational account..."Sybil" remains a good book and movie, but perhaps Nathan's version of the story is the one worth telling in classrooms. " --"New Scientist""What forces cause a diagnosis like Multiple Personality Disorder to rise and fall within less than a generation? Debbie Nathan broke the story 20 years ago and now, in "Sybil Exposed", she's finally putting all the puzzle pieces together. Unless we learn the lessons in this journalistic masterwork, we are doomed to fall victim to the next fad and the next caring healer who claims to have our best interest at heart." -Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us""In this dazzling expose of a manipulative psychiatrist, an author who'd do anything for fame and a vulnerable girl caught in the middle, journalist Nathan reveals how these three women changed the psychiatric landscape by raising questions of identity that resonated with a generation. The result is a cautionary tale about the ways in which science, in the wrong hands, can capitalize on our collective fears. " --"More" magazine"Throughout "Sybil Exposed", Nathan traces the winding path from truth to falsehood"--Salon"A gripping history of crackpot psychiatry" --"People" magazine
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About the Author
Debbie Nathan has been a journalist, editor, and translator for almost three decades. Debbie’s work has won numerous national and regional awards, including: The H.L. Mencken Award for Investigative Journalism, PEN West Award for Journalism, theTexas Institute of Letters Award for feature journalism, and the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Service Journalism.
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Product details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Free Press; 1 edition (June 12, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439168288
ISBN-13: 978-1439168288
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.7 out of 5 stars
196 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
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Just kidding. There is only me. I am glad this book was written. I too swallowed the Sybil story when it first came out. Then again, I believed A Million Little Pieces was true as well. In a world where lives have been ruined by accusations of ritual sexual abuse of workers at a daycare center based on false memories, we need somebody keeping the mental health profession honest.
I am a Masters level Licensed Mental Health practitioner with 30 years of experience. In my early career, I attended numerous workshops and presentations focused on MPD, DID and so-called ritual abuse complete with lovingly rendered and explicitly gory details. I sat through impassioned speeches about the unfailing accuracy of recovered memories and the incapacity of children (who often live as though their and caregivers’ fictions are fact)to tell anything but the absolute truth. I even believed it for a time. And that’s the rub. Facts don’t require belief. We don’t have a scientific, objective, factual and observable measurement for personality, singular. Let alone multiple. Let’s stop giving people more problems than they have.
There may be spoilers here...***Sybil (the original) was one of the most influential books of my young adulthood. It made me consider psychiatry or counseling as a career. Later, as books like "The Courage to Heal" and others came out, and controversy over false memories ensued, I felt that at least "Sybil" was the truth. Even when debate arose after her death, indicating that the multiple personalities were a fabrication, I still believed that the horrific childhood abuse had taken place. Given that, it was no wonder that Shirley Mason dissociated, even if the 16 personalities were a ploy to remain in therapy.But there was so much more than that, and it's horrifying to learn that Mason's main problems were actually induced by her psychiatrist, who was determined to be honored for some historic breakthrough. If Debbie Nathan's account is to be believed, Cornelia Wilbur was the abuser, not Mason's mother. A co-conspirator, albeit a regretful one, was Flora Schreiber, who wrote the original book. Schreiber, like Wilbur, wanted fame, and to be part of something historic. She realized that Wilbur was a problematic personality, but ignored her own misgivings while the book was being written and published.I still pity Shirley Mason as an abuse victim. but now for very different reasons. The only concern I have is that somewhere down the line I will learn that this account was fabricated as well. Once you experience this type of betrayal, even at a reader's distancce, it's hard to be credulous again. That's probably not a bad thing.
As a former Psychiatric research nurse, I've studied historical cases of abuse in research but am truly shocked that this went on in the 60s and 70s without anyone questioning it.The story of Sybil has been around for decades and the validity of the story went unchallenged until all of those involved were dead. Aside from the travesties done to Shirley at the hands of Dr. Wilbur, I am appalled that it has taken this long to expose the fraud and abuse and that there were even people who helped keep this hidden to protect the legacy of Dr. C. Wilbur.
Rather startled by this book. Well researched. No opinion unsubstantiated. I read Sybil when it was first all the rage. Totally believed it all. Questions only now forthcoming.
Ms. Nathan confronts the Multiple Personality Disorder community, or as it is now known, the Disassociative Disorder Community, or DID community, by trying to unravel the strange and unique behavior of the personalities involved in the case of "Sybil", a well known DID whose case was celebrated as a breakthrough when it first came out, and then became the subject of questions.While reading this book, many things appeared to me to be uncertain. Many of the thoughts of those involved in Sybil's case were written as if verbatim, yet these thoughts do not have notes attached as to where they came from. Others have footnotes that indicate that they were taken "in context", but whose context were they taken in? I am sure that there is a lot of information of which I am not aware that would back Ms. Nathan up on some of this, but her discussion of homosexual behavior between some of the participants is, at best, a reach.While there might have been (all of the subjects are dead now, so we cannot ask), what reason is there to bring this up in a book that is written about what is purported to be a fraudulent agreement between people involved? It bears no purpose other than to bring a haze of mystery onto the scene, with a thin layer of innuendo that reeks, to me, of someone saying "If they had an affair, they must have made this stuff up".I believe that this book could have been made better with less fictional conversation (at least conversation and thoughts that seem fictional) and more facts. Ms. Nathan's subjects, many of whom were third and fourth hand (a friend, a cousin, someone who knew someone who knew Sybil, Dr. Wilbur or Ms. Schreiber) seemed to not lend a tone of veracity to the book, as the information seemed to be passed from person to person rather than heard first hand.I understand that the relationship between the three was strained and, in some ways, very codependent, but at the same time, I also feel it could have been handled differently. This, of course, is just my opinion.
Great read! Very insightful, total page turner!
The author makes a number of valid points about this case and the analysis of Sybil. However she has her own bias against the Dissociative Identity disorder and it shows. Her concerns and conclusions about the Sybil case should not be generalized to the disorder as a whole.
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