Sybil

Book Details

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Author(s):

Flora Rheta Schreiber

First Pub:

1973

Genre(s):

Biography

First Read:

1988

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Internal ID:

686

Series:

No series

Copyright:

First Sentence:

None on file

Last Sentence:

None on file

Comments:

No comments on file

Extract not on file

Added: 19-Jul-2005

Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

01-Jul-1995

Warner Books

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jul-1995

Pages*:

480

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

534

Publisher:

Warner Books

ISBN:

0-446-35940-8

ISBN-13:

978-0-446-35940-5

Country:

United States

Language:

English

"SPELLBINDING!"
- TIME

More amazing than any work of fiction, yet true in every word, it swept to the top of the bestseller lists and riveted the consciousness of the world. As an Emmy Award-winning film starring Sally Field, is captured the home screens of an entire nation and has endured as the most electrifying TV movie ever made. It's the true story of a survivor of terrifying childhood abuse, victim of sudden and mystifying blackouts, and the first case of multiple personality ever to be psychoanalyzed. You're about to meet Sybil - and the sixteen selves to whom she played host, both women and men, each with a different personality, speech pattern, and even personal appearance. You'll experience the strangeness and fascination of the woman's rare affliction - and travel with her on her long, ultimately triumphant journey back to wholeness.

"A MOVING HUMAN NARRATIVE."
- New York Review of Books

"ASTONISHING... IT FORCES YOU TO LOOK AT YOURSELF AND THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU IN A NEW WAY."
- Doris Lessing

A Main Selection of the Psychology Today Book Club
A Featured Alternate of the Literary Guild®

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01-Jul-1995
Warner Books

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Author(s)

Flora Rheta Schreiber
Birth: 24 Apr 1918 New York, New York, USA
Death: 03 Nov 1988 Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

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