"Sybil" fake???? what do you guys think???
http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/sybilbogus.html
Personally i think she was real...here are a few excerpts that stood out for me...
"The tapes also show Schreiber improperly dismissing a letter Sybil wrote to Wilbur in which she denies having multiple personalities, Rieber said. The letter is reproduced in Schreiber's book. v Rieber's conclusions fall in line with previously published opinions by Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a New York psychiatrist who used Sybil in hypnotism research and says he was her surrogate therapist when Wilbur was out of town."
-I believe they took this out of context...first of all ....according to book as well as movie....."Sybil" denied having mulitple personalities due to denial...yes she wrote a letter to Wilbur....but it was only through denial...and we all know .....when in denial ...you will think of anything to believe when your trying not to accept the reality.......
"Spiegel also concluded that Sybil's so-called personalities actually arose from Wilbur's therapeutic technique of giving names to various emotional states Sybil experienced. The problem was that Wilbur mistakenly came to believe that they really were dist inct personalities, Spiegel said. He said Sybil told him one day that Wilbur wanted her "to be Helen" when talking about a particular event in Sybil's past."
Obiviously, Many DID persons cannot take charge of their alters.....but when coaxed/needed one can come out....am i right?? If im not then ..my bad......anyway...if what i am thinking is true....then perhaps it was Wilburs way of coaxing Helen out...maybe not doing it the right way...but nevertheless...another view would be to understand Wilbur was trying to bring "Sybil" and her alters to come to terms with each other...to understand why each one of them is there....so perhaps Wilbur was explained to "Sybil" what part she noticed helen was of "Sybil" and how "Sybil" would think Helen would handle it ....that way "Sybil" would understand why helen was there....and how helen deals with situations....