I would like to point out that the the article Joan links to below
is somewhat misleading.  Bob Rieber who is briefly mentioned
in the article was the first person to identify Sybil as a fraud.
Quoting from the NYT article:

|The same year that her identity was revealed, Robert Rieber,
|a psychologist at John Jay, presented a paper at the American
|Psychological Association in which he accused Mason’s doctor
|of a “fraudulent construction of a multiple personality,” based
|on tape-recordings that Schreiber had given him. “It is clear from
|Wilbur’s own words that she was not exploring the truth but rather
|planting the truth as she wanted it to be,” Rieber wrote.

If the above was all you knew of Bob's role, you would have
thought he never wrote about his discovery and his argument
that Sybil was a fraud.  But in point of fact, Bob published several
papers, the I believe is this:

Robert W. Rieber (1999). Hypnosis, false memory and multiple
personality: a trinity of affinity. History of Psychiatry, 10: 003-11,
doi:10.1177/0957154X9901003701
http://hpy.sagepub.com/content/10/37/003.short

Of direct relevance to Tipsters, is another article that he wrote with
some Fordham colleagues (NOTE: Bob left John Jay College-CUNY
and is presently part of the faculty at Fordham):

Rieber, Robert W., Takooshian, Harold, & Iglesias, Humberto. (2002).
The Case of Sybil in the Teaching of Psychology.
Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 11(4), 355-360.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1016888128990
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1016888128990#

Bob even wrote a book about MPD with material on Sybil:
Rieber, Robert (2010). The Bifurcation of the Self: The History and Theory
of Dissociation and Its Disorders. New York: Springer.
More info on books.google.com:
http://books.google.com/books?id=da8RkgAACAAJ&dq=Robert+Rieber&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fsHpUcHsHtX54APv3IDwDA&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBw

Bob tends to write a lot and a search of scholar.google.com for
"Rieber" and "Sybil" will turn up additional articles/publications
as well as responses by others to his writing.

So, I thank Joan for point out the NYT article but I do want to
point out that one of our own has covered similar ground earlier
and, perhaps, more extensively.  Indeed, it would be interesting
to compare how Debbie Nathan's book -- which is excerpted in
the article (the book title is "“Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary
Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case”) -- compares
to what Bob has written.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

P.S. Bob used to be the editor of the "Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research" where I had a couple of publications under his editorship.

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Joan Warmbold Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:00:30 -0700

A very relevant issue is an article in the NYT's about the book, Sybil
Exposed, about the research revealing how totally inaccurate diagnosis of
Sybil as having multiple personality was as well as the extremely
unethical means used by her therapist to produce a great but totally false
case study.  Basically the diagnosis was of the therapist's making.  The
article in the NYT's about this book, Sybil Exposed, is terrific as is the
book itself.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/magazine/a-girl-not-named-sybil.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Just this summer I had a student tell me she wrote an entire paper about
Sybil, believing it was fact not fiction. And the paper was for a high
school psychology class.  Concerning to me.

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