who is sybil psychology
This article is about the non-fiction book about Shirley Ardell Mason 's treatment for dissociative identity disorder. For the novel by Benjamin Disraeli, see Sybil (novel) .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.ason is given the pseudonym Sybil by her therapist to protect her privacy. Originally in treatment for social anxiety and memory loss, after extended therapy involving amobarbital and hypnosis interviews, Sybil manifests sixteen personalities.