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Shirley Ardell Mason. Shirley Ardell Mason (January 25, 1923 – February 26, 1998) was an American art teacher [ 1] who was reported to have dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder ). Her life was purportedly described, with adaptations to protect her anonymity, in 1973 in the book Sybil, subtitled The ...
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 book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in 1976 and again in 2007.
Cornelia Burwell Wilbur (August 26, 1908 – September 20, 1992) was an American psychiatrist.She is best known for a book, written by Flora Rheta Schreiber, and two television films titled Sybil, about the psychiatric treatment she rendered to a person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.
Sybil is a 2007 American made-for-television drama film directed by Joseph Sargent, and written by John Pielmeier, based on the 1973 book Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, which fictionalized the story of Shirley Ardell Mason, who was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder (more commonly known then as "split personality", now called dissociative identity disorder).
In 1993, the interdisciplinary team Desmond Henry, Dick Geary and Peter Tyrer published an essay in which they expressed their common view that Hitler had antisocial personality disorder as defined in ICD-10. Tyrer, a psychiatrist, was convinced that Hitler furthermore showed signs of paranoia and of histrionic personality disorder. [24]
Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. [3] [24] (p331) The disorder is accompanied by memory gaps more severe than could be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. [3] [24] (p331) [25] The personality states alternately influence a person's behavior ...
Dorothy Otnow Lewis. Dorothy Otnow Lewis is an American psychiatrist and author who has been an expert witness at a number of high-profile cases. She specializes in the study of violent individuals and people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. Lewis has worked with death row inmates as ...
Philippe Pinel ( French: [pinɛl]; 20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826) was a French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. He worked for the abolition of the ...