Sybil - by Flora Rheta Schreiber (Paperback)

About the Book

Now in a tall Premium Edition, this perennial classic tells the harrowing true story of a woman possessed by multiple personalities. It was the basis for the 1976 Emmy Award-winning TV movie starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward.

Book Synopsis

In this "spellbinding" bestseller that inspired the electrifying Emmy-award winning TV movie starring Sally Fields, a journalist chronicles the first ever case of multiple personalities to be psychoanalyzed (Time Magazine).

You're about to meet Sybil-and the sixteen selves to whom she played host, both women and men, each with a different personality, speech pattern, and personal appearance. You'll experience the strangeness and fascination of one woman's rare affliction, and travel with her on her long, ultimately triumphant journey back to wholeness.

More amazing than any work of fiction, Sybil is one woman's story of survival you won't soon forget.

Review Quotes

"A moving human narrative."--New York Review of Books

"Astonishing . . . It forces you to look at yourself and the people around you in a new way."--Doris Lessing

"Illuminating . . fascinating!"--Chicago Tribune

"Spellbinding!"--Time magazine

About the Author

Flora Rheta Schreiber was the psychiatry editor of Science Digest when she first heard about Sybil. She spent seven years writing this book. She is also the author of The Shoemaker. She died in 1988 in New York City of a heart attack.