{"id":2806,"date":"2017-02-28T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:21:42","slug":"sybil-came-clean-but-psychiatrist-wasnt-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sybil\u2019 came clean, but psychiatrist wasn\u2019t interested"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2808\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170228Mason.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley Ardell Mason\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170228Mason.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170228Mason-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Ardell Mason<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[Shirley Ardell] Mason was the real person behind the 1970s best seller \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=cEnP0vrrZGgC&amp;dq=sybil+nathan&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\">Sybil<\/a>,\u2019\u00a0which sold 6 million copies with its riveting account of an abused woman inhabited by 16 different personalities. Sally Field won an Emmy for her 1976 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075296\/combined\" target=\"_blank\">portrayal<\/a>\u00a0seen by 20 percent of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the process, Mason popularized the condition known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=968\">multiple personality disorder<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a trendy 1970s diagnosis. The number of cases mushroomed from about 75 to 40,000 after \u2018Sybil\u2019 was published&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the trove of records kept on her case, Mason actually admitted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/10\/20\/141514464\/real-sybil-admits-multiple-personalities-were-fake\" target=\"_blank\">making up<\/a>\u00a0the many personalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c \u2018I do not really have any multiple personalities,\u2019 she wrote in a letter to her psychiatrist. \u2018I do not even have a \u201cdouble.\u201d \u2026 I am all of them. I have been lying in my pretense of them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer doctor chalked it up to a defensive ploy to avoid deeper therapy&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 \u00a0From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/the-minnesotan-behind-sybil-one-of-america-s-most-famous-psychiatric-patients\/414787024\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Minnesotan behind Sybil, one of America&#8217;s most famous psychiatric patients<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nby Curt Brown in the Minneapolis Star Tribune (Feb. 25)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Shirley Ardell] Mason was the real person behind the 1970s best seller \u2018Sybil,\u2019\u00a0which sold 6 million copies with its riveting account of an abused woman inhabited by 16 different personalities. Sally Field won an Emmy for her 1976 portrayal\u00a0seen by 20 percent of the nation. \u201cIn the process, Mason popularized the condition known as multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}