Description
Description
Records the life of a young woman who assumed sixteen personalities, possibly due to abuse by her neurotic mother, and describes the events and outcome of her eleven years in psychoanalysis.
About the Author
About the Author
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.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Spellbinding!"--Time magazine
"A moving human narrative."--New York Review of Books
"Illuminating . . fascinating!"--Chicago Tribune
"Astonishing . . . It forces you to look at yourself and the people around you in a new way."--Doris Lessing
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Pub date:
2009-04-01
Length:
512 pages
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