Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case by Debbie Nathan

Author:Debbie Nathan [Nathan, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, History, Social Science, Popular Culture, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Social History, Psychopathology, Mason; Shirley, Multiple Personality Disorder, Sybil - Mental Health, Multiple Personality - Patients, Personality, Multiple Personality
ISBN: 9781439168271
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2011-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

Flora had her happy ending, exactly when she wanted it. Now she could do the book—and not just a potboiler, but a work of moral and literary heft. Writing about multiple personality disorder would free her from the surface, she told herself. It would take her to the deeps, to that place in her writing where she’d always yearned to go. She felt terrific about the whole thing.

It’s harder to know Connie’s reaction. A photograph from the period shows her face strangely smooth, waxy, and devoid of emotion even though she is smiling. She was fifty-seven years old the autumn Shirley was cured, and she would later confide to a relative that she availed herself of plastic surgery to refresh her appearance.15 It’s not clear when Connie went under the knife, but perhaps she felt she needed a pick-me-up before departing for Appalachia with Shirley in tow.

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