“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 therapist called the woman " Sybil" to protect her privacy. Originally in treatment for social anxiety and memory loss, after extended therapy Sybil manifests sixteen personalities. I loved the book when I read it in high school, and I loved the miniseries. I never really thought about my brain. You take your brain for granted. It is a bunch of complex cells, but I didn't comprehend how much a brain really “does.” In school, I had to study the brain. I took psychology and biology. But the concept of a brain was so clinical. The structure of the brain was a just a topic to study. When my strokes happened, it galvanized my thought process. This is my brain. Something is wron...
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