![]() ![]() As in other instances of multiple personality they have access to Sybil's stores of information but she is-often embarrassing ly-amnesic for the times when they have taken over. These others know of Sybil's existence and, in gen eral, each other's, but Sybil does not know about them. Sybil's life is fractured peri odically by the emergence of Peggy Lou and her 14 alternate selves. an assertive, en thusiastic and often angry pixie.” At age 9, for instance, after the death of a beloved grand mother, Sybil, terrified and lonely, “became Peggy Lou Baldwin. Giving up her old self, she “became” a new person, less restricted by historical fetters, more adequate to the situation. Dorsett learned to deal with threatening situations by “dis sociating” herself from them. ![]() The Sybil of Flora Rheta Schreiber's case‐study bears as a diagnosis the peculiarly dra matic form of hysteria known as “multiple personality.” Like the Eve of “The Three Faces of Eve,” she acts at different times as if she were different people however Sybil has not three but 16 personalities.Įarly in a life shadowed by an overwhelming mother, Sybil I. ![]()
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