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Sybil: Historia verídica de una mujer poseída por 16 personalidades diferentes
Sebastián Martínez, Luis Vigil, Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.69 AVERAGE
262 reviews for:
Sybil: Historia verídica de una mujer poseída por 16 personalidades diferentes
Sebastián Martínez, Luis Vigil, Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.69 AVERAGE
This book, for those who don't know, is the story of an anonymous patient, nicknamed "Sybil", who suffers from multiple personalities or, as it's commonly known today, Dissociative Identity Disorder. Not only dues she have multiple personalities, she has SIXTEEN!!! For those who also don't know (aka people alive when this first hit shelves and tv screens who also believe that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated and all the other things tabloids told them) this book is not nonfiction. It has been disproven many times. In a time where google didn't exist and investigators weren't listened to as much, this story flourished.
While this book is a complete fabrication and upon reading it I can see why people were convinced of its lies, the writing is well-done, the story compelling, and the pictures included give the book a true crime feel of probability (honestly some of "Sybil's" paintings and drawings are beautiful). Sadly, knowing that it's not true and kind of a scam gives the book a feeling of reading a witch trial transcript or watching people on the Travel channel claim to have "supernatural experiences" when you know they were just paid to say all these things. I hate feeling lied to by an obvious liar.
1/5 stars
While this book is a complete fabrication and upon reading it I can see why people were convinced of its lies, the writing is well-done, the story compelling, and the pictures included give the book a true crime feel of probability (honestly some of "Sybil's" paintings and drawings are beautiful). Sadly, knowing that it's not true and kind of a scam gives the book a feeling of reading a witch trial transcript or watching people on the Travel channel claim to have "supernatural experiences" when you know they were just paid to say all these things. I hate feeling lied to by an obvious liar.
1/5 stars
SYBIL is the true story about a woman with the most famous case of multiple personality disorder ever treated. Sybil, a pseudonym, attends therapy with psychoanalyst Dr. Wilbur for numerous years, uncovering her past: a childhood shredded apart by the abuse of a schizophrenic mother and the neglect of a passive father. Feeling unable to escape from her miserable life, Sybil “splintered” into sixteen different selves, each with its own unique way of coping with a particular situation that Sybil is in.
This book is extremely well written and thus engaging, a book that you’ll never want to put down, even as you must read through the horrifying parts. Readers will be left cheering for Sybil while simultaneously wondering at the extent to which humanity can sink in its, well, human-ness.
This book is extremely well written and thus engaging, a book that you’ll never want to put down, even as you must read through the horrifying parts. Readers will be left cheering for Sybil while simultaneously wondering at the extent to which humanity can sink in its, well, human-ness.
i got real bored
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence
Minor: Death, Grief
God, I am so done. I have 50 or so pages to go, but it's dragging on. and on. and on. and on. and on. And I'm done.
It really is an amazingly moving and disturbing story. But by the time we get to the part where she's healing, and uniting, it's just the same story, redundant, redundant, redundant.
I would recommend the book. I just can't keep going with it.
It really is an amazingly moving and disturbing story. But by the time we get to the part where she's healing, and uniting, it's just the same story, redundant, redundant, redundant.
I would recommend the book. I just can't keep going with it.
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Although the writing itself wasn't particularly excellent, the story was utterly fascinating. I'm interested to learn more about the controversy (and resulting alternative theories) surrounding Sybil's case. A really great read.
I had this thing with reading about mental illness. I think it's a side effect of the Plath obsession. Anyway, I read this book during that time and since apparently it's all b.s. or half-fiction, it's hard to rate it. I'll go with "It's ok" for now.
dark
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Torture