Sybil also profited, but her true identity remained a secret until after all three women were dead. Much of the sensational story was fabricated, according to journalist and author Debbie Nathan.

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976 TV movie. Mason later admitted to her psychiatrist ...

Turning 50 is rarely easy for a woman, and “Sybil” is no exception. This tarnished classic — “the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities,” to ...

“Sybil supposedly had 16 personalities, which was unprecedented at the time. Within a couple of years, there were people claiming to have hundreds of personalities.

Sybil, published in 1973, created a sensation with its account of a woman who harbored within her more than a dozen distinct personalities. Equally popular was the 1976 TV movie based on the book.

“Sybil” was adapted into an Emmy-winning 1976 TV miniseries starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward that was viewed by one-fifth of the American public. And it was an utter fraud.

Sybil Branson, 24, was nearing the due date for her first child, so that part’s right. Eclampsia, strictly speaking, isn’t present until the woman has a seizure.

Sybil Shainwald, a lawyer who for nearly half a century represented women whose health had been irreparably and often catastrophically harmed by poorly tested drugs and medical devices, died on ...