[the invisib1e hand]

lols.

[Neoliberalnot]

And today, probably an accepted lifestyle; one eulogized by the “gay” community.

[all the best]

The establishment media lies?!?! Say it ain’t so. I am totally disillusioned.

[Tublecane]

The whole concept of “repressed memories” was BS from the get=go, and obviously so. Either you remember something or you don’t.

[lacrew]

I don’t know the details; but, I believe establishing ‘bi-polar’ status as a disability helps get your ticket punched for free housing and even tuition assistance...maybe through SSA.

[Mich Patriot]

All I remember is that Sally Field was very impressive in the movie. Just one man’s opinion, and I was probably in my teens then.

[Hatteras]

"Shirley continued, “I do not have any multiple personalities ... I do not even have a ‘double’ ... I am all of them. I have essentially been lying ... as trying to show you I felt I needed help ... Quite thrilling. Got me a lot of attention."

Uh huh.... How do we know this isn't just personality #17 emerging?

[miss marmelstein]

I read this article yesterday but I think this story was debunked years ago.

Sunday NYTimes book review ignores books by Ann Coulter and Thomas Sowell but has time to review editor Jill Abramson’s dumb book about...her dog.

[chesley]

Ha! I knew it! Of course, I've read about this before.

However, even when it first came out, I had serious doubts.

And you can't trust the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual. Anything that keeps changing definitions of mental illnesses to suit the current political winds is, by unchanging definition, Stalinist.

[dfwgator]

Of course this multiple personalities stuff is BS.

No it isn’t

Yes it is.

Shut up!!!

[count-your-change]

Even when the movie came out there were doubters that said it was not other personalities but only how one personality imagined others..in short a very good acting job.
Still it was an interesting movie if one didn't take it as fact.
Can we call it the Barby Doll Syndrome, one character playing many different parts? Now this woman plays Sybil 17, Denial Sybil.
Such fun !

[wideminded]

Don’t know about this case, but I know someone who seems to genuinely have two personalities. So I think that multiple personality disorder does exist, although it unusual.

[martin_fierro]

Laz'd hit it them.

[dagogo redux]

Board certified shrink here: I’ll stay out of this except to say that many, if not most, in the profession saw this whole phenomena for the hoax it was from the very beginning.

It’s an iatrogenic illness, fostered on susceptible people by therapists of dubious insight, training, character and motives.

When therapists send me these folks for medication management, I politely inform the patient that I will require them to be present, not their multiples, throughout each meeting with me, and that I will refer them on to someone else the very first time a multiple appears. Not once have I, under those rules, seen a multiple or any other regressive nonsense, and I have found out later in several cases that they’ve dropped the drama altogether and gotten on with their lives.

[cvq3842]

More evidence for the authors of the story of the decline and fall of Western civilization . . .

[Terry Mross]

I strongly believe in multiple personalities.

I strongly believe in multiple personalities. Who said that?

Seriously, there’s a professional in Houston who believes some people with multiple personality disorder are demon possessed.

[I still care]

I have no idea what went on in the “Sybil” case. I do remember that Wilbur was highly suspected by her collegues which always put up red flags for me.

In the book she addresses the letter as a time when Sybil simply didn’t want to do therapy anymore - it was getting too painful, so Sybil wrote her a letter saying she had really all made it up, thank you, so she didn’t need anymore help and therapy. It did seem a little too pat, and she did continue after that with therapy.

I’ve always wondered. However, the book does document a lot of injuries to the young Sybil supposedly caused by her mother. And it does state the mother was catatonic for a year, and diagnosed with a mental disorder. That would seem to me as some kind of proof for truth.

[calex59]

Despite what some people think memories can be and are suppressed under certain conditions. Severe Car accidents for instance are frequently forgotten, sometimes the few seconds leading up to the accident, the accident itself and sometimes a short period of time after the accident. This is quite common and probably the brains way of keeping people from freaking out and reliving the accident over and over in their minds. I imagine that some forms of child abuse would cause the same black outs of certain memories, altho I don't think sexual abuse would necessarily qualify unless it was accompanied by a lot of pain, which I would imagine is frequently the case.

As for multiple personalities I don't actually believe in them unless the person is actually schitzo and then that is slightly different.

[aruanan]

And you’ve got to wonder how many thousands of lives have been destroyed as a result of “therapists” believing in such a phenomenon because of that book and manipulating patients into “remembering” all sorts of things that never occurred.

[aruanan]

Sybil’s real name was Shirley Mason. She was a jittery girl who grew up quivering in a Minnesota family of Seventh-day Adventists who believed that the world was about to end and that any fiction divorced from God’s truth was a sin. As a little girl, she was so terrified of God’s watchful eye that, when she made up stories, she hid this habit from her parents. She was also made to participate in a health fad of the day, the “internal bath,” or enema. She developed a germ phobia and at one point examined her hands obsessively.

Lest anyone think this nuttiness was confined to early 20th century 7th Day Adventism (and the health nuts of Battle Creek, Michigan), see the role of the enema in Germany and Austria in the era leading up to WWII.