Sybil Movie Quotes

It feels like we're in some old movie from an ancient time like before they invented computers and internet and cell phones. You know, like the 80's.

Wilbur’s diagnostic label became famous just as psychiatry’s dependence on diagnostic labels reached its height. The DSM-III, which was being prepared amid the Sybil craze, categorized illness by symptoms rather than underlying causes or theories—and in the wake of a best-selling book and popular movie, the symptoms of MPD started popping up everywhere. Patients began reporting experiences of having multiple selves in alarming numbers; if psychiatry hadn’t made room for these patients in its diagnostic bible, it would have had to cede authority over them.

Mason was renamed “Sybil,” which also served as the title of the book, published in 1973. In 1976 a TV movie adaptation followed, starring Sally Field. These works brought Wilbur’s term, multiple personality disorder (MPD), not only into the public consciousness but the professional one. A concept that had barely existed before 1973 exploded in prevalence over the ensuing decade.3 MPD was included in the DSM-III, four years before any paper by Wilbur on the subject was accepted for publication by a peer-reviewed scientific journal.4