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 ...

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 ...