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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
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?
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Despite what I have read about the lack of credibility of this story/book, it was an interesting and entertaining read...although I had a hard time getting past all the Freudian mumbo jumbo that made the behavior analyst in me cringe the entire time.
challenging
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inspiring
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I loved the book and it gave me a lot of insights into dissociative identity disorders.
I was part of Sybil. But at the moment the doctor left us, I was no longer part of her. As that white coat moved through that door, we were no longer one. I became myself.
Through hypnotic age progression, Dr. Wilbur had metamorphosed what had been fixations in the past into viable parts of the present.
Memories make a person mature emotionally.
It can be postulated that the hysterical environment spawns a hysteric; the hysteric then becomes a multiple personality in order to assume identities that make it possible to escape from the restrictive standards of an oppressive milieu.
Not impossibly many persons who suffer from amnesia are in reality multiple personalities.
I read this is high school alongside a book about crime statistics and forensics. To this day I don’t remember the title of that forensics book and I barely remember any of the facts from it but I still remember Sybil and the absolute disgust I felt when reading some of the abuse Sybil experienced the hand of her mother. The graphic amount of CSA that is in this book honestly probably traumatized me a bit considering how vividly I remember it compared to other aspects of the book. I truly felt bad for Sybil and genuinely hoped she managed to find happiness despite everything she experienced only to find out that it was all bullshit. Not only was Sybil not suffering from DID but her psychiatrist, the narrator of the book, basically abused Sybil the entire time Sybil was under her care. When I found out these harrowing tales of abuse were all a result of a woman drugged our of her mind I felt so angry and tricked. Honestly there were many signs to this book being full of bullshit, mostly the idea that Sybil’s multiple personalities somehow gave her the ability to have memories from infancy, but the biggest one still had to be the number of personalities. Some of them were very detailed while others barely showed up at all, even the idea that they varied in gender and age felt more like a marketing ploy in hindsight.
I hate this book and I hate my high school library for claiming it was published in the 2010s when it clearly wasn’t.
I hate this book and I hate my high school library for claiming it was published in the 2010s when it clearly wasn’t.
3.5. There's a whole boatload of a speculation about this book and the story, and I'll admit-I'm not positive I believe every word of it. But, it was quite interesting and told almost in the way of a story/novel, so I believe if you intend to read this book, go into thinking it's a fictional tale and it's certainly more enjoyable. Don't spend tons of time trying to debunk it, just read.
So.
Sybil.
I dare say it was a wonderful book.
It says nonfiction (& apparently Sybil & her story are a true & real life case), but even if it weren't, even if it were a totally fictional story, I'd say it was a wonderful & masterfully thought story.
Yes, there were parts of the story that bored me & made me lose my focus on the words I was reading. But it doesn't mean the whole story was boring or wrong or anything.
A very painful & horrifying story of a shattered personality, a broken woman. A story of her sufferings, of her pain, & how she managed to finally overcome that pain (through years of therapy).
Totally worth it.
I do suggest it. But if you go for it, be ready for the worst a human being can do to another.
Sybil.
I dare say it was a wonderful book.
It says nonfiction (& apparently Sybil & her story are a true & real life case), but even if it weren't, even if it were a totally fictional story, I'd say it was a wonderful & masterfully thought story.
Yes, there were parts of the story that bored me & made me lose my focus on the words I was reading. But it doesn't mean the whole story was boring or wrong or anything.
A very painful & horrifying story of a shattered personality, a broken woman. A story of her sufferings, of her pain, & how she managed to finally overcome that pain (through years of therapy).
Totally worth it.
I do suggest it. But if you go for it, be ready for the worst a human being can do to another.
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mysterious
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medium-paced
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dark
emotional
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inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced