When Sybil first came out in 1973, not only did it shoot to the top of the best-seller lists — it manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon. The book was billed as the true story of a woman who suffered ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Was one of the world's most famous medical cases a mistake? Or, worse yet, a hoax? Author Debbie Nathan's book "Sybil Exposed" explores the history of the Minnesota woman who became a ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Was one of the world's most famous medical cases a mistake? Or, worse yet, a hoax? Author Debbie Nathan's book "Sybil Exposed" explores the history of the Minnesota woman who became a ...

Three decades after publication of the blockbuster "Sybil," Debbie Nathan began her research into the world's most celebrated case of multiple personality disorder. Nathan started her work at the John ...

TONI COLETTE AS TARA: I will be in control, me, Tara. TONI COLETTE AS AN ALTER: This is all your fault. With the drugs. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Our fascination with split personalities goes way back. Think ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sybil was a pseudonym given to Shirley Mason in a 1973 work of nonfiction by Flora Rheta Schreiber, which examined the young woman ...

Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book Sybil. The book and subsequent film caused an enormous spike in reported cases of multiple personality disorder.