She reveals the truth about the case in her book, Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case, which she discussed in on The Current. Much of the sensational story was fabricated, according to journalist and author Debbie Nathan. Sybil also profited, but her true identity remained a secret until after all three women were dead. Cornelia Wilbur, became rich and famous as a result.
Author Flora Schreiber and Sybil's psychiatrist, Dr. Sybil was a bestselling book in the 1970s and was adapted as a 1976 television mini-series and a feature-length docudrama in 2007. She moves in real close to evil and stays there.The story of Sybil - a young woman who had been abused by her mother as a child and, as a result, had a mental breakdown and created multiple personalities - caused a sensation. And as the mother who tortured the young Sybil, JoBeth Williams turns in a remarkable performance. She is mesmerizing as she moves in and out of her multiple characters, making each one of them a three-dimensional being for the screen.Īs the doctor who helps Sybil, Jessica Lange is more than convincing, if a bit stiff at times. She has enough depth of being to carry it off completely. That said, Tammy Blanchard - who won an Emmy for her performance as Judy Garland in “My Life as Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows” - takes Sybil and makes the woman completely her own. Later on, learning to trust even one doctor must have been another torture altogether for Sybil.įield’s performance more than 30 years ago stands alone. Having been emotionally and physically abused by her mother when she was a child, Sybil found the most creative of ways to survive: She simply found other people to be, all of them residing in her battered psyche. “Sybil” is engrossing enough for anyone - as a tale of emotional and physical torture and as the story of possible hope.
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