Sybil
By Flora Rheta Schreiber
(Grand Central Publishing, Mass Market Paperback, 9780446359405, 480pp.)
Publication Date: May 1989
Other Editions of This Title: Mass Market Paperback, Prebound
Categories: General, Neuropsychology, Psychopathology - General
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Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.
Flora Rheta Schreiber was the psychiatry editor of Science Digest when she first heard about Sybil. She spent seven years writing this book. She is also the author of The Shoemaker. She died in 1988 in New York City of a heart attack.
"Astonishing . . . It forces you to look at yourself and the people around you in a new way."
-Doris Lessing
"Spellbinding!"
-Time magazine
"Illumination. . . fascinating!"
-Chicago Tribune
"A moving human narrative."
-New York Review of Books
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