Editing Dissociative identity disorder (section)

====Book and film ''Sybil''====
In 1974, the highly influential book ''[[Sybil (Schreiber book)|Sybil]]'' was published, and later made into a [[miniseries]] in [[Sybil (1976 film)|1976]] and [[Sybil (2007 film)|again in 2007]]. Describing what Robert Rieber called "the third most famous of multiple personality cases,"<ref name = Rieber>{{cite journal | author = Rieber, R.W. | year = 1999 | title = Hypnosis, false memory and multiple personality: A trinity of affinity | journal = History of Psychiatry | volume = 10 | issue = 37 | pages = 3–11 | pmid = 11623821 | doi = 10.1177/0957154X9901003701 | s2cid = 41343058 }}</ref> it presented a detailed discussion of the problems of treatment of "Sybil Isabel Dorsett", a [[pseudonym]] for [[Shirley Ardell Mason]].

Though the book and subsequent films helped popularize the diagnosis and trigger an epidemic of the diagnosis,<ref name = Paris2012>{{cite journal | author = Paris, J. | year = 2012 | title = The rise and fall of dissociative identity disorder | journal = [[Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease]] | volume = 200 | issue = 12 | pages = 1076–1079 | pmid = 23197123 | doi = 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318275d285 | s2cid = 32336795 }}</ref> later analysis of the case suggested different interpretations, ranging from Mason's problems having been caused by the therapeutic methods and [[Sodium thiopental|sodium pentathol]] injections used by her psychiatrist, [[Cornelia B. Wilbur|C. B. Wilbur]], or an inadvertent hoax due in part to the lucrative publishing rights,<ref name = Rieber/><ref>{{cite book | last = Nathan | first = Debbie | author-link = Debbie Nathan | year = 2011 | title = Sybil exposed | publisher = [[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]] | isbn = 978-1-4391-6827-1 | url = https://archive.org/details/sybilexposedextr00nath_0 }}</ref> though this conclusion has itself been challenged.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Lawrence | first = M. | year = 2008 | title = Review of ''Bifurcation of the Self: The History and Theory of Dissociation and its Disorders'' | journal = American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis | volume = 50 | issue = 3 | pages = 273–283 | doi=10.1080/00029157.2008.10401633| s2cid = 219594172 }}</ref>

David Spiegel, a Stanford psychiatrist whose father treated Shirley Ardell Mason on occasion, says that his father described Mason as "a brilliant hysteric. He felt that Wilbur tended to pressure her to exaggerate on the dissociation she already had."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Sianne |date=2014-11-24 |df=dmy-all |title=Sybil: A brilliant hysteric? |website=RetroReport.org |url=http://www.retroreport.org/video/sybil-a-brilliant-hysteric/ |access-date=14 August 2015}}</ref> {{Better source needed|date=June 2020|reason=I think Herbert Spiegel himself wrote about it.}} As media attention on DID increased, so too did the controversy surrounding the diagnosis.<ref name="Farrell">{{cite journal |author=Farrell, H.M. |year=2011 |title=Dissociative identity disorder: Medicolegal challenges |url=http://www.jaapl.org/content/39/3/402.full.pdf+html |journal=The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=402–406 |pmid=21908758}}</ref>