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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} After Sybil... From the Letters of Shirley Mason by Nancy L. Preston Astraea's Web. Please don't base your judgement of multiplicity, or these pages, solely on Sybil or on the real-life Shirley Mason. While we have received overwhelming confirmation that she was multiple and an abuse survivor, her story was unique, and many aspects of her case are controversial. There are a lot of myths about her story, and we carry this information only because so many people have written to us asking for it. Please do not judge all multiples by what you've seen on The United States of Tara . This show is a comedy, it is being played for laughs, it is distorted, inaccurate, and insulting to multiples. Who Was Shirley Mason? Nancy Preston, Sybil's Friend Shirley Mason's friend and student, created this loving tribute to the woman& she knew. Miss Preston was interviewed for the Sybil DVD and that interview is included in the extras. Miss Preston's website, Sybil's Friend, has lots of personal reminiscences about her art teacher, mentor and friend. Dr. Patrick Suraci, Sybil In Her Own Words Blog post by the author of Sybil In Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings. (Kindle edition here) Dr. Suraci taped many conversations with Shirley Mason during her lifetime, after discovering her art in 1993. This book reveals the truth about Shirley's early life and abuse, her work with Dr. Wilbur and her later life. Dr. Suraci's Authors Guild Blog here. Shirley Mason: The Hidden Paintings Discovered after Shirley's death, these were paintings done by both Shirley and people in her inner family. Stranger In Our Midst How Shirley lived peacefully in Lexington, Kentucky with almost no one the wiser. Unmasking Sybil A few more facts about her life. Who was the real Sybil? From the New Yorker , January 4, 1999. How Much Of 'Sybil' Is Real? The Sybil TV movie starring Sally Field is not a documentary. It is a heavily fictionalized adaptation which was deliberately coded (using certain types of music, lighting and camera angles) to resemble a horror film. The Sybil book and films -- not Shirley's real life -- are the public image of multiple personalities -- and have done a lot of damage to multiples. ( Please read that if you don't read anything else on this page.) Films such as Three Faces of Eve and Sybil and shows like The United States of Tara should not be viewed as educational: they are not representative or models of "how a real multiple acts". Click here to read more about this. Among the many untruths perpetuated by the Sybil movie remake starring Tammy Blanchard, one of the worst came at the end, with the statement that Shirley Ardell Mason ended her life as a "recluse". She was an artist who exhibited her paintings at local galleries. She taught art for years, designed toys, and owned her own business. She was a devout member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and was well known and liked there. Friends and family visited her constantly and there were family members with her when she died. Only a very few people knew Shirley was Sybil. Watch Sybil Movie on TV - The Women's Entertainment Network occasionally shows the original Sybil movie, apparently uncut. Oxygen also shows the Sybil movie uncut. Keep an eye on the schedule. Internet Movie Database Discussion board about the remake. Dr. Cornelia Wilbur's personal papers -- letters, diaries, etc. -- were opened in 2005. This is primarily for the use of researchers like Peter Swales. They were apparently part of the source material used by Debbie Nathan for her recent trash-expos� book Sybil Exposed . There is no reason to believe that the general public will ever be allowed access to Cornelia Wilbur's papers. There is still no word on when or if her professional records will be opened, and it is likely that this will not happen anytime soon due to issues of client confidentiality. Additionally, it is our understanding that Dr. Wilbur kept very incomplete records, and sometimes did not keep charts or records on her clients at all. Any information on Sybil the book, Sybil the movie, Sybil DVD or Shirley Ardell Mason will be posted here. (And if you think we're doing a bit of SEO there, you're absolutely right.) Was Shirley Mason Really Multiple? Dr. Herbert Spiegel, Sybil: The Making of A Disorder from the New York Review. Was Shirley really multiple? Or did Cornelia Wilbur just talk her into it? Decide for yourself -- but beware: take what Spiegel says with a large grain of salt. He's got a certain view of women and he's using Shirley's story to 'prove that he is right'. Dr. Robert Rieber, All About Sybil: Natural History of a Myth His interpretation of the Sybil tapes he heard, and his version of the MPD scandal of the 80s and 90s and how the misreporting of Sybil's case contributed to it. Again, a lot of what he says is complete nonsense. The mentality of these people can be judged by the way they write. Published by Psycke-Logo Press. Bifurcation of Self A review of Dr. Rieber's book on Sybil, pointing out his obvious nonsense, misinformation and half truths. Originally appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis January 2008. On Being The Proper Multiple By Sara Lambert. Even if you actually have the psychiatric MPD condition, it is completely unnecessary to behave like Sybil in order to be authentic or believed. Please don't use the Sybil book or film as a role model , and please do read this article if you have or think you have MPD. Mistaken Identity There is some stuff about Shirley in this BBC Horizons report. Warning: A British friend tells us, "Horizon is a show about taking the subject of a scientific paper and making it into a 'story'. They use the expression 'sheer drama' which means that they can't tell you about the discovery of a new particle without giving you 50 minutes of the amazing chance discovery and people struggling to persuade their doubting collegues of its existence." Anyone who remembers Greer Garson sitting up in bed and gasping "Pierre! What if that stain is radium?!" should be familiar with this phenomenon. The Prodigy Transcripts: Cornelia Wilbur, Richard Kluft and Frank Putnam on MPD Interrogation methods developed and recommended by the foremost "experts" on this condition. One can see how a non-multiple client could become coerced into pretending to have MPD just to get the hell out of there. Doctors Debate Multiplicity as Iatrogenic or PTSD Putnam sees multiplicity as damage, but at least he sees it. Originally appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, July 1995 v34 n7 p957(3). Billy Milligan. Is Billy Milligan a Natural Multiple? A very brief astute observation by an anonymous writer. Other Controversies. Otherkin. Theosophy and later the New Age recognized the possibility of elemental spirits incarnating in human bodies or persons on a "deva" evolution path. Non-theosophical ideas about otherkin (not by that name) evolved before the internet, and are mostly associated with belief systems such as the Faerie Faith. If you're interested, check out Elf Lore Family (this is NOT Wicca). Fictives/Soulbonding. The Kaycee Nicole thing. May 28, 2001: I am posting information about the Kaycee Nicole thing because it is another case of "Violation and Virtuality", not because I think Kaycee/Debbie was multiple. It is relevant in terms of creating and maintaining online identities. Anthony Temple. Life & Death of Jesse James Another very similar story. Again, these people aren't multiple. This is about people who have an obsessive need to lie, not about groups of actual persons sharing a body. It has much more in common with the Megan Meier case than anything else. (In our opinion, there's quite a bit of lying and posturing on both sides of this one, and we don't believe the Harlan Ellison part at all until he comes out and says he was in it.) Metafilter discussion here. Sybil (book) Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder ) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur. The book was made into two movies of the same name, once in 1976 and again as a television movie in 2007. Contents. Summary. Mason is given the pseudonym "Sybil" by her therapist to protect her privacy. Originally in treatment for social anxiety and memory loss, after extended therapy involving amobarbital and hypnosis interviews, Sybil manifests sixteen personalities. Wilbur encouraged Sybil's various selves to communicate and reveal information about her life. Described personalities. The book begins with a list of Sybil's "alters", together with the year in which each appeared to have dissociated from the central personality. The names of these selves were also changed to ensure privacy. Sybil Isabel Dorsett (1923), the main personality Victoria Antoinette Scharleau (1926), nicknamed Vicky, self-assured and sophisticated young French girl Peggy Lou Baldwin (1926), assertive, enthusiastic, and often angry Peggy Ann Baldwin (1926), a counterpart of Peggy Lou but more fearful than angry Mary Lucinda Saunders Dorsett (1933), a thoughtful, contemplative, and maternal homebody Marcia Lynn Dorsett (1927), an extremely emotional writer and painter Vanessa Gail Dorsett (1935), intensely dramatic is the musical one of them and fun loving.