Coffee With Jeff

In 1976, a made for television mini-series called Sybil premiered on NBC. It was based on a book of the same name; a non-fiction account written by Flora Rheta Schreiber about psychoanalyst Cornelia B. Wilbur and her treatment of a woman named Sybil Dorsett, who was reported to have 16 distinct personalities. Sybil, it turned out, was Shirley Ardell Mason. Both the book and the film were a great success with its shocking and disturbing true story and yet, there have been many who have questioned the book and the story of Sybil and her 15 other selves. Show notes and links: Old Man Kelley On Film (youtube.com) The Hysteria of Multiple Personality Disorder | (spoliamag.com) Famous Psychiatric Patient Sybil Discovered as Shirley Mason Disappears – Minnesota Monthly – March 2012 (minnesotamonthly.com) Unmasking Sybil (newsweek.com) Real ‘Sybil’ Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake : NPR (npr.org) Sybil: A woman with 16 multiple personalities (booksatvioletcrush.com) A Girl Not Named Sybil (nytimes.com)