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Mason had indeed had a troubled upbringing. The 1973 book told the story of Sybil Dorsett, later revealed to be Shirley Mason, whose personality had been splintered into more than a dozen distinct characters including a baby and two males.īut the titillating tale, serialised across the nation, has now been exposed as a fake, concocted by three women as a calculated money-making inventionĪ new book 'Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case' denounces the account as a fiction.Īccording to the author, Debbie Nathan, the memoir was cooked up by three individuals hungry for fame and fortune: Mason, her therapist Cornelia (Connie) Wilbur and journalist Flora Schreiber. The shocking account of Sybil, a girl with 16 separate personalities that developed as a result of horrendous childhood abuses, sold seven million copies, and even spawned a recognised syndrome, 'multiple personality disorder. It was a best-selling 'true story' that planted the notion of repressed memory syndrome in the American consciousness.
Victim? Shirley Mason, who was revealed to be the basis for Sybil, said in a 1958 letter that she was lying
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