When Sybil first came out in 1973, not only did it shoot to the top of the best-seller lists — it manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon. The book was billed as the true story of a woman who suffered ...

The story of Sybil, a young woman who was horrifically abused by her mother as a child, resulting in the creation of multiple personalities, caught the world by storm. Sybil was a bestselling book in ...

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Whether or not a person can have multiple personalities is a controversial subject. "This is something abstract,” “Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan” docuseries director Olivier Megaton ...

At 11:31 a.m. on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, Georgia businessman Doug Coker went to meet Pamela Moss to retrieve the $85,000 he had given her to help him start a nonprofit foundation; he had decided it ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

Showtime and Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Television this fall will start production on The United States of Tara, a half-hour comedy pilot "with a twist," in that it concerns a mom with multiple ...

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976... Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life ...

Richard Noll's excellent piece on the folly-filled history of Multiple Personality Disorder (aka Dissociative Identity Disorder) turned out to be too hot for Psychiatric Times to handle. After having ...