“Sybil,” the shocking true story of a woman shattered into 16 distinct personalities that helped her to dig up repressed memories of monstrous childhood sexual abuse, sold nearly 7 million ...

Why do such lurid tales hold their grip? By Alexandra Jacobs Turning 50 is rarely easy for a woman, and “Sybil” is no exception. This tarnished classic — “the True and Extraordinary Story ...

new video loaded: Sybil: A Brilliant Hysteric? transcript na In the 1970s, the TV movie “Sybil” introduced much of the nation to multiple personality disorder and led to a controversy that ...

The story of Sybil — a young woman who had been abused by her mother as a child and, as a result, had a mental breakdown and created multiple personalities — caused a sensation. Sybil was a ...

Yet not every historian believes it happened that way. On the evening of April 26, 1777, a 16-year-old girl named Sybil Ludington set out into the rain on horseback. Her mission was desperate and ...

Sybil Schneiderman, the breakout character on Hulu’s new sitcom “Mid-Century Modern,” is discussed, amply, before she is seen. “The woman could probably make it another 20 years just on ...