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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
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Interesting study of Multiple Personality Disorder.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
emotional
informative
sad
The book itself is fine, but it's just not the right timing for me to read it.
did-not-finish
did-not-finish
4.5 stars - SO interesting. just absolutely fascinating; I couldn't stop reading. also terribly sad... some parts made my heart just ache.
I remember watching a TV-documentary about a woman with multiple personalities years ago. That left me interested in the topic so when I came across this book I had to pick it up. Upon googling I discovered that this book is apparently very famous even though I had never heard of it before. Anyhow, I have many thoughts concerning this book:
- I thought the main story was very interesting and I liked Sybil from the beginning. I think her different thoughts during her therapy process were described well and the way she got to know herself was, imo, believable.
- I do think that the book was a bit poorly written. The writing style was often repetitive and condescending toward Sybil.
- The condescending tone was true about Sybil's psychiatrist as well. She and the author both look at Sybil as a child in need of guidance instead of a grown woman in her 30s (which she of course is despite her mental problems). I'm willing to consider this a difference in time and culture, though. The decades that have passed have changed a lot in the way patients are treated so it would be unfair to judge the book by today's standards. The same probibly goes for the very pure Freudian approach by the psychiatrist, but I'm not an expert in that area.
- There have a lot of criticism about this book, some claiming it to be completely untrue. I think the truth is somewhere in between. This book is probably exaggerated in some things, but I also think that Sybil really had dissosiative personality disorder. In any case, this book in an interesting story about a woman who finds her way from complete inner chaos to happiness and freedom.
- I thought the main story was very interesting and I liked Sybil from the beginning. I think her different thoughts during her therapy process were described well and the way she got to know herself was, imo, believable.
- I do think that the book was a bit poorly written. The writing style was often repetitive and condescending toward Sybil.
- The condescending tone was true about Sybil's psychiatrist as well. She and the author both look at Sybil as a child in need of guidance instead of a grown woman in her 30s (which she of course is despite her mental problems). I'm willing to consider this a difference in time and culture, though. The decades that have passed have changed a lot in the way patients are treated so it would be unfair to judge the book by today's standards. The same probibly goes for the very pure Freudian approach by the psychiatrist, but I'm not an expert in that area.
- There have a lot of criticism about this book, some claiming it to be completely untrue. I think the truth is somewhere in between. This book is probably exaggerated in some things, but I also think that Sybil really had dissosiative personality disorder. In any case, this book in an interesting story about a woman who finds her way from complete inner chaos to happiness and freedom.
I've read this book twice. Once was maybe a decade ago and the other time is recent. I've picked this up again because I plan on reading sybil exposed and I wanted a refresher about the case. Its an interesting story, a bit too clinical and plain to be read for fun. But if it's going to labeled as a true story then a few things need to be clarified. The author shows how sybil came to therapy and how the therapist became interested in her but it neglects telling you how the therapist got all this information from sybil. What I got out of it was that the therapist knew what she wanted and may have led sybil there. The therapist was a believer in Freudian theory so she naturally expected the root cause to be sexual. The conversation the therapist had with Sybils father was money-motivated and her attack on him seemed to aimed at making him feel guilty for allowing sybil's trauma to happen. The author makes a point of telling us that he started paying after that. I think maybe she did have multiple personalities. But I believe that the motivation behind this book was about getting famous and getting money, so the extent of the trauma may have been sensationalized. If this told the whole truth it would be a worthwhile read, but it seems way too biased to be called a good true story.
dark
reflective
This was the worst book I've ever read. The psychoanalysis is total bunk, and honestly, I believe everything in this book was made up. It was about 200 pages longer than it needed to be.
Absolutely spectacular and intense. I've always had an interest in psychology and this book fed my appetite! It was infuriating to read at some parts and made me giggle at others, but diverseness is what I feel makes a great book. I don't know if I will ever read it again, but I think anyone who has even the slightest interest in the study of the human brain should read this at least once.