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1st oversize mass market ed. |
| Description |
xx, 492 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Includes psychological index, reading group guide, and discussion questions. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Being : The incomprehensible clock ; Wartime within ; The couch and the serpent ; The other girl ; Peggy Lou Baldwin ; Victoria Antoinette Scharleau ; Why -- pt. 2. Becoming : Willow corners ; Yesterday was never ; Thieves of time ; The search for the center ; Silent witnesses ; The terror of laughter ; Hattie ; Battered child ; Hattie's fury has a beginning ; Willard -- pt. 3. Unbecoming : Confrontation and verification ; The boys ; The voice of orthodoxy ; The wine of wrath ; The clock comprehensible ; The retreating white coat ; Suicide -- pt. 4. Reentry : Beginning to remember ; Independent futures ; Prisoners in their body ; Journey to one ; They are me, too ; Hate heals ; Ramon ; One -- Epilogue : The new Sybil's new time. |
| Summary |
This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse, victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world. |
| Subject |
Sybil, 1923-1998.
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Sybil, 1923-1998. (OCoLC)fst01648084
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Multiple personality -- Patients -- Biography.
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Multiple personality.
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Multiple personality. (OCoLC)fst01028994
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Multiple personality -- Patients.
(OCoLC)fst01028998
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Multiple Personality Disorder. (DNLM)D009105. |
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Multiple Personality Disorder -- etiology. (DNLM)D009105Q000209. |
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Dissociative Disorders -- history. (DNLM)D004213Q000266. |
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Mentally Ill Persons. (DNLM)D028642. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780446550123 (pbk.) |
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0446550124 (pbk.) |
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9780808505174 (Turtleback binding) |
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0808505173 (Turtleback binding) |
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