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. ------------- Original Message -------------- 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. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=26536 or send a blank email to leave-26536-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu