Revisiting Sybil, 33 years later
My recent post on the book The Flock caused me to remember Sybil, perhaps the second popular factual book on the subject of dissociative identity disorder. (The first was The Three Faces of Eve, about Eve White, a pseudonym for a woman named Chris Costner Sizemore. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a work of fiction.) One of my observations in my discussion of The Flock was that this book bore one important similarity to Sybil - the patient (or in the case of The Flock, the client)... Sign in to see full entry.