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261 reviews for:
Sybil: Historia verídica de una mujer poseída por 16 personalidades diferentes
Sebastián Martínez, Luis Vigil, Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.69 AVERAGE
261 reviews for:
Sybil: Historia verídica de una mujer poseída por 16 personalidades diferentes
Sebastián Martínez, Luis Vigil, Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.69 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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2.5 stars. read this for school in which i had to write a ten page paper in how it relates to social psychology. definitely an interesting basis for a paper, made the writing process somewhat enjoyable and engaging.
apart from my own academic experience with it, it was definitely one of (if not THE) most disturbing, face scrunching books i’ve ever read. legitimate or not… doesn’t take away from the absolute shock that is this entire book
apart from my own academic experience with it, it was definitely one of (if not THE) most disturbing, face scrunching books i’ve ever read. legitimate or not… doesn’t take away from the absolute shock that is this entire book
Couldn't get into it, got really boring by the end
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Interesting book, but I hope for science's sake that anyone who reads it knows this case has been disproven time and time again, and that DID in general has no empirical basis. I came in as a sceptic and left as a firm non-believer. There are too many inconsistencies that would not have been accepted if it's wasn't for the emotional aspect of people wanting to believe no one would lie about that severe trauma.
I recommend reading peer reviewed articles about DID and Sybil after, otherwise it might be hard to shake the feeling that "believe all victims" leaves behind.
It's important to not have a false belief about this diagnosis existing, as the treatment has been shown to be harmful to the patients. We want them to get the right and best help possible, diagnosing someone with DID does not achieve that.
With all of that in mind it is an interesting view into how twisted things can get when a person has too much power over another.
I recommend reading peer reviewed articles about DID and Sybil after, otherwise it might be hard to shake the feeling that "believe all victims" leaves behind.
It's important to not have a false belief about this diagnosis existing, as the treatment has been shown to be harmful to the patients. We want them to get the right and best help possible, diagnosing someone with DID does not achieve that.
With all of that in mind it is an interesting view into how twisted things can get when a person has too much power over another.
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
My kind of genre and i dont think i’ll ever get tired reading this kind of books. Has multiple personalities or not, this can still be a self reflective book for all of us.
An interesting, clinical case of multiple personality disorder that gives readers an alarming hindsight regarding the disease.
Despite the fact that I read this at a far too young - and too impressionable age - this book became one of my all-time favorites. It is a tough read, definitely not for the faint of heart, in particular the sections on Sybil's childhood. (These scenes depicting her abuse are truly horrific, unlike any others I have ever heard. They are agonizing to read, but they are also necessary in understanding just why Sybil's mind splintered the way it did.) This book is what made me become so interested in psychology. It was my first introduction into the human mind, and I became particularly fascinated with dissociative identity disorder.
I can't go into much more detail than that, it was years ago that I read this and can't remember the details. I hope reread it sometime soon, maybe then my rating will change.
I can't go into much more detail than that, it was years ago that I read this and can't remember the details. I hope reread it sometime soon, maybe then my rating will change.
Recklessly fraudulent, exploitative, and responsible for a good deal of public misinformation this book (which is not especially well-written) would have made for a decent piece of spooky science fiction but is disgusting as something which claims to be a factual account. If you read it without taking it seriously it does possess a great deal of chilling, dramatic entertainment value. There is something very gripping about the whole premise which is the reason behind its success and the abuse detailed within is genuinely, perhaps ghoulishly, horrific. It is metaphorical and approaches the literary but steadfastly remains cheaply commercial. I ultimately liked Sybil in a "guilty pleasure" sort of way because it is so bizarre, delinquent, often melodramatic, and so full of chicanery that it becomes positively campy. I wonder how many people with relatively minor mental illness or attention seeking traits have had their life derailed because of this book?