“Sybil Isabel Dorsett” is a pseudonym due to constrains of confidentiality between patient and doctor.

Sybil is a book intended as a written presentation of the history-making case in medical journals of multiple personalities; being of great medical significance because its broad psychological and philosophical implications to the general public.

The book is based on Dr. Wilburn’s daily notes, Sybil’s essays, and recordings of some sessions that were taped in the course of 2,354 office sessions. Also the author bases some of her observations on Sybil’s diaries, letters, family and hospital records, newspapers and records of “Sybil’s” hometown during the years her family lived there.

I believe the book manages to shed light on a mental illness that is real and true in some cases, but due to recent information presented mainly by Dr. Robert Rieber at the American Psychological Association meeting on August of 1998 and

At the end the author includes an epilogue comprising seven years after the end of reentry until almost the time when the book got published. It also contains various items, mainly psychological tests and the clinical results.

This book is a great choice of reading for a beginning psychology student, like myself, it is thought provoking, invites to further research and introduces the student to the debatable issue of multiple personality disorder.

others, I am inclined to disbelieve some of the content of the book. The book failed to convince me that all of the facts were objective and not subjective in its nature.

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