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Sybil, A Case Of Multiple Personality: The Natural History of a Myth

Sybil, A Case Of Multiple Personality: The Natural History of a Myth SYBIL, A CASE OF MULTIPLE PERSONALITY: The Natural History of a Myth1 Who is Sybil and What is She? Who's the real me Am I a person One, Two, or Three Who can it be? Bring on the clowns. Am I really sick \A dissociated trick \Go into therapy - Get in real quick \Let in the clowns. I Was I abused False memory confused Hypnosis Suggestion Misused Litigation Pursues Bug Of! Those Clowns We don't know what we don't know said Wittgenstien. But nobody seems to know that: And there's a concerted effort to prevent anyone from finding it out. PRELUDE TO A MYSTERY In the "sixties" when this social dream was created there existed a mood of manic desperation, which eventually gave rise to the count­ er-cultural revolution. Authorities in psychology, such as Thomas Szasz and Ronald Lang, made the usual outrageous statements such as mental 167 CHAPTER6 illness is a myth (Szasz) and society is more schizophrenic than the schizophrenic (Lang). This was the spirit of the time that gave birth to the book as well as the motion picture titled Sybil. In this chapter I will tell how the real story about Sybil was "manufactured" http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Distress and Homeless Taylor & Francis

Sybil, A Case Of Multiple Personality: The Natural History of a Myth

Journal of Social Distress and Homeless , Volume 13 (1-2): 21 – Jan 1, 2004
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright 2004 Taylor and Francis Group LLC
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1573-658X
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1053-0789
DOI
10.1080/10530789.2004.11739502
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SYBIL, A CASE OF MULTIPLE PERSONALITY: The Natural History of a Myth1 Who is Sybil and What is She? Who's the real me Am I a person One, Two, or Three Who can it be? Bring on the clowns. Am I really sick \A dissociated trick \Go into therapy - Get in real quick \Let in the clowns. I Was I abused False memory confused Hypnosis Suggestion Misused Litigation Pursues Bug Of! Those Clowns We don't know what we don't know said Wittgenstien. But nobody seems to know that: And there's a concerted effort to prevent anyone from finding it out. PRELUDE TO A MYSTERY In the "sixties" when this social dream was created there existed a mood of manic desperation, which eventually gave rise to the count­ er-cultural revolution. Authorities in psychology, such as Thomas Szasz and Ronald Lang, made the usual outrageous statements such as mental 167 CHAPTER6 illness is a myth (Szasz) and society is more schizophrenic than the schizophrenic (Lang). This was the spirit of the time that gave birth to the book as well as the motion picture titled Sybil. In this chapter I will tell how the real story about Sybil was "manufactured"

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Journal of Social Distress and HomelessTaylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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