Works Cited
1. M. Keenan, "The Devil and Dr. Braun," New City article, 1995-JUN-22: Mentioned in FMS Foundation Newsletter, at: http://www.fmsfonline.org/fmsf99.n24.html
2. The International Society for the Study of Dissociation has a web site at: http://www.issd.org/ Its official publication is the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. See: http://www.issd.org/indexpage/jtdauthorsinfo.html There are allegations that the ISSD controls the content of the The Journal of Psychiatry & Law (JPSLA). These are not to be mistaken for the The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law or International Journal of Law and Psychiatry."
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Sybil would also introduce herself as someone else many times during the same session. Sybil shared her mind with about seven different people. The doctor started to carry on continual sessions with her regularly and many times Sybil would claim to be someone else.
To help better understand and treat Sybil the doctor would slowly question Sybil’s personalities. She found she had better luck talking with Sybil’s personalities than Sybil herself. This would help the Doctor get to the root of Sybil’s problems and reasons behind this disorder. Sometimes Sybil would be a very nice sweet innocent young girl or as different as a young well behaved French lady. The differences in these personalities are endless. Each personality responded differently to the doctor’s treatment. She used Hypnosis which seemed to be the most successful out of all of her treatments. Hypnosis allowed Sybil to not be afraid of her past and to overcome her fears. This would in turn help her let go of many of the personalities she hid behind to keep the “bad” memories away.
When speaking as Gina the young lady from Paris Sybil would seem very confident and fearless. Gina would say things that she didn’t care to much for in regards to Sybil. The Doctor noted this and would try to confront Sybil about specific things Gina would
A reason why Mrs Birling is an unsympathetic character is that she cares more about presentation than she does for people. The demonstration of her high-handedness towards her children immediately makes her unlikeable. She criticized Sheila for describing Eric as “squiffy”: ‘What an expression Sheila’. Mrs Birling is more concerned with Sheila’s low appearance standards than the welfare of her son. Even her husband’s bad manners do not escape Sybil Birling: when he compliments the cook, she quips back with saying ‘Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things’. This proposes that Sybil Birling is intent on following the rules of social etiquette, and concerned with superficial behaviour rather than her children’s morality. Due to the fact
When she confesses that she prevented Eva Smith from receiving help, she begins blaming the father who “impregnated” Eva Smith. The Inspector’s cleverness is shown in this part of the play because he has laid a trap for Mrs Birling and she has fallen straight into it. This suggests that Mrs Birling is not very smart, unlike Sheila, who realises and tries to warn her, but Sybil doesn’t listen. Mrs Birling says that the father should make a “public confession” and that there should be “a scandal” about this. This echoes her dismissive tone as she is again trying to blame someone else.
Sybil is an established rich who is cold, selfish, irresponsible and neglective. She rejects Eva’s cry for help without question and second thought the girl with her granddaughter. This shows she is dismissive and she also dismisses the accusation for Eva’s death at the end. The reason Mrs. Birling is to blame is the fact that she has the most diverse form of responsibility due to it being her job to help people and to judge them fairly. Although, Eva used Mrs. Birling’s name, she should have listened to what Eva had to say thus if she hadn’t turned her away, then Eva wouldn’t have been coerced to suicide.
5. According to Goffman, patients commonly create narratives about themselves in order to make more desirable self-presentations of themselves to others. In other words, patients will commonly make up past achievements about themselves in order to create a better self-image. In the movie, Georgina, who was Susanna’s roommate, was a pathological liar. Throughout the film, she continuously told lies in order to better her self-presentation. For instance, she threatens another patient when she says “My dad is the head of the CIA and he could have you dead in minutes”. She used this lie to portray herself as having powerful and influential family members and to depict herself in a better way to the other patients. Furthermore, Goffman writes, “One typically finds that he constructs an image of his life course – past, present, and future – which selects, abstracts, and distorts in such a way as to provide him with a view of himself which he can usefully expound in current situations” (Goffman 1961:498). This is seen through another character in the film, Polly. Polly is a disfigured patient checked into the mental hospital because of her schizophrenia and depression. She has various burns on her face and body and tells the other patients she was part of a bad fire. This causes the other patients to feel bad for her and show her sympathy. However, in reality Polly was not trapped in a fire, but rather she set herself on fire. If she told the other patients this, they would view
Wilbur began to learn more and more about each different personality. She figured that this was the only answer or way to treat Sybil. She was going to have to treat each of Sybil's separate selves. The way that she was going to have to eventually treat Sybil though was by going into the past and bringing up some of the repressed memories that Sybil had from childhood. She would then have to make Sybil bring together all of the different selves and come to terms with the past and the reality of the present and future. Some of the more flamboyant personalities were Sybil, of course, who was generally shy and withdrawn, Peggy, who was quite aggressive, Vicky, who is quite sophisticated, Mary, who was quite obese, but yet motherly, Vanessa, who had the aura of an actress, baby-Ruthie, who was very childlike, and two energetic, high-spirited young males, Mike and Sid. The treatment of these different selves was going to be an enormous task any way that Dr. Wilbur looked at it. Another odd that was stacked against her was that Sybil was in the guise of the other personalities at least one-third of her life and had no recollection of ever doing any of the things that she did while she was "another self". However, there was an interesting twist to that. The other selves were very aware of Sybil and often spoke of her in sessions. They believed that she was another person and often told Dr. Wilbur that they were there (at session) in Sybil's place for
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a psychological condition in which a person will create one or more alternate identities. DID (formerly known as multiple personality disorder) is just one of three dissociative disorders. This disorder is set apart by the way the identities “switch” from one to another. Patients who suffer from dissociative identity disorder can often lead normal lives when diagnosed properly and treated accordingly; sometimes, they cannot. People suffering from dissociative identity disorder often have similar causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Barb’s husband says that homelife sometimes becomes chaotic. Barb revealed through one of her personalities (DJ) that a dentist drilled in body when she was younger. “DJ” is one of Barbs personalities and she smokes and has totally different thoughts. “DJ” has memories of abuse. “Devon” is a teen male who likes to fight and goes to bars sometimes. Barb’s father brought men home to have sex with her. “Kari” is a personality who feels no responsibility of the household and comes out to deal with memories. “Audrey” is a seven year old personality.
No two people are alike, and no two personalities are alike. A personality is made up of different characteristics, which help to define a person. Per the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator everyone has a four-letter personality type with 16 different personality combinations. These personality types affect everyone’s personal, social and work life. My four-letter personality type is ISFJ (introvert, sensing, feeling and judgment).
I found both women stories remarkable so I decided to write about both. Did you know that a person could have ninty-two personalities? Well the first woman I am introducing is a remarkable story of someone who did. Her name is Truddi Chase. Truddi Chase was born on February 22,1935 near Rochester, NY. During the time of her childhood, she was physically and sexually abused. It makes me wonder if the abuse was the cause of her Multiple Personality Disorders. Sometimes tragic events lead people to lose themselves. In spite of everything, she seemed to have made it out alright. Truddi began an author. One of her books in particular was When Rabbit Howls. It was about her experiences with having multiple personalities. She also appeared on Oprah where she told her life's story. I find that inspring because not a lot of people can say that. Many people drown in their despair but she chose the latter.
Dissociative Identity Disorder, commonly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder, exists as a bizarre mental disorder in which a person acquires two
At one point in our lives or another, we have all been to school, we have all been into the lunchroom, and we have all seen those few children that sit by themselves and don’t say anything, don’t look around, and don’t seem even the least bit interested. The greater parts of society looks at these odd children and then brushes them off and say to themselves “Oh they are just weird, I wouldn’t want to be their friend either.” But have you ever stopped and thought maybe its something deeper? Maybe these kids have a mental disorder that causes them to be that way. Maybe, just maybe, its not even their own choice but its forced upon them by abusive and neglectful parents that obliterate their children’s trust so far that they cant even
treatment techniques (such as believed to be the case with Sybil Dorsett and being so,
is described by the nearness of at least two unmistakable or split characters or identity expresses that ceaselessly have control over the individual's conduct. With dissociative character issue, there's likewise a powerlessness to review key individual data that is too expansive to be clarified as unimportant absent mindedness. With dissociative character issue, there are likewise exceptionally particular memory varieties, which vacillate with the individual's part identity.
In this movie, Sybil’s symptoms consist of blackouts and amnesia, both of which create gaps in time, that she can’t recall or remember anything. She also describes herself as jumping from one place to another. She then undergoes treatment by a Dr. Wilbur. During the movie skeptical colleagues in her department confront Wilbur with concern of whether or not this is a true mental illness that Sybil is suffering from. Wilbur ignores these claims and chooses to believe they are only saying these things
On Christmas Eve Sybil had dinner with Richard and his son, also she had agreed to let Richard stay the night. Richard told her that he would hold close but throughout the night, Sybil had a nightmare and ended up climbing up her bookcase which had awoken Richard. At that moment Sybil confessed she was seeing Dr.Wilbur, so Richard’s immediate thought was to call the doctor, in the meantime Sybil gotten to the roof of the apartment and stood on the ledge of the rooftop. Once Richard had gotten up to the roof he convinced her not to jump, and once she agreed Richard instantly grabbed her. While holding onto Sybil Dr.Wilbur arrived, Sybil told Richard she does not want to see him anymore because she is ill even though she is falling in love with him. In that moment that is when Dr.Wilbur knew she had major investigating to do and Sybil knew she needed to get well. In this scene of the movie it show Sybil’s symptoms very serious, her constant suicide attempts, her changes in behavior, depression, panic attacks, sleep problems, and severe headaches. These problems Sybil had encountered affected her on a daily lifestyle. She could not go anywhere without having a panic attack or changing characters in the middle of a conversation with Richard or