num_pages: 432
description: "Sybil" is the fascinating, incredibly moving true story of a woman with sixteen personalities - two of whom were men - and her struggle, against overwhelming odds, for health and happiness. 'Astonishing book...it forces you to look at yourself and the people around you in a new way' - Doris Lessing.
language: English
title: Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities
titlecomplete: Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities
characters: Dr. Wilbur, Shirley Ardell Mason=Sybil Dorsett (pseud.)
genres: Biography, Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Memoir, Science, Adult, Classics, Biography Memoir, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 89142
publisher: Penguin