人格裂变的姑娘

这是一部奇特的小说。它以真人真事为题材，描写了鲜为人知的多重人格，揭示了生动奇幻的变态心理。本书七十年代在美国出版后立即引起轰动，当年列为《时代》杂志畅销书目之首，几年内出版了五百多万册，迄今影响不衰。

本书主人公西碧尔常失去记忆，每当失去记忆之时她就变成了一个化身，前后多达十五个化身。每个化身都有不同的姓名、年龄、性格、爱好和处世态度，她们都在特定的需要中随时现身。西碧尔本人干不出来的事就由化身替她来干。她这种人格分裂起源于童年时代的精神创伤。幼小的西碧尔遭到令人发指的残害。这类小说在我国出版界还极为罕见。

Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988), an American journalist, was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who had a dissociative identity disorder and allegedly had 16 different personalities. As Mason had insisted on protection of her privacy, Schreiber gave her the cover identity of Sy...

Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988), an American journalist, was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who had a dissociative identity disorder and allegedly had 16 different personalities. As Mason had insisted on protection of her privacy, Schreiber gave her the cover identity of Sybil Isabel Dorsett.

Schreiber was an English instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for many years. She later wrote The Shoemaker, a book documenting the true story of Joseph Kallinger, a serial killer who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

Schreiber's papers are housed in the Lloyd Sealy Library Special Collections at John Jay College. The collection is comprehensive documentation of her life and career.