Flora Rheta Schreiber (1918–1988)
Autor(a) de Sybil
About the Author
Obras por Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Shoemaker: the Anatomy of a Psychotic 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Schreiber, Flora Rheta
- Data de nascimento
- 1918-04-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1988-11-03
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Columbia University (BS|1938|MA|1939)
- Ocupações
- journalist
professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (English) - Organizações
- The New School
Adelphi University
John Jay College, City University of New York
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Flora Rheta Schreiber was an American journalist and the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil. For many years, she was also an English instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Membros
Críticas
Listas
True Crime (1)
1970s (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 3,143
- Popularidade
- #8,122
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 47
- ISBN
- 55
- Línguas
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 3
Sybil is a story of such abuse at the hands of a mentally disturbed mother - sexual, physical and emotional abuse prevail. Sybil is a true story based on one of the most severe cases of MPD and child abuse in history. Over a span of twenty years, it reveals the various "personalities" living within one woman. How one could even survive such atrocities is beyond belief. The time period of this story ends in the 40's. Today, research continues on this subject and much has been learned since Sybil's case, but one can never have enough knowledge.
Sybil's personalities eventually merge and in 1998, the real Sybil died, finding, we hope, final peace and contentment… (mais)