Yes, but the question we must ask ourselves is, are they living that way because of the movie and the book. That is, knowing or suspecting there were several persons sharing a body, did they then decide they had to follow the model set by Sybil not only in order to be believed by others, but to self-validate?
Judging from the voluminous correspondence we've received over the last eleven years, I seriously suspect that the latter is frequently the case. Sybil, by virtue of the fact that there was almost no other literature on multiple personalities at the time, set the standard for both mental health professionals and their clients on what constituted proper behavior for a multiple. Even Truddi Chase& fit the profile, in their own way. It has become a meme, in the true sense of the word.
One reason we wrote the articles that formed the basis for our website was to conceive of and hopefully provide alternative examples.
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:40 am (UTC)Judging from the voluminous correspondence we've received over the last eleven years, I seriously suspect that the latter is frequently the case. Sybil, by virtue of the fact that there was almost no other literature on multiple personalities at the time, set the standard for both mental health professionals and their clients on what constituted proper behavior for a multiple. Even Truddi Chase& fit the profile, in their own way. It has become a meme, in the true sense of the word.
One reason we wrote the articles that formed the basis for our website was to conceive of and hopefully provide alternative examples.