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> the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities
I never knew where the name for “Sybil attack” came from. Until now.
Previously I was imagining a “Sybil” to be some kind of creature that was similar to a gopher, a beaver, or a capybara. For some reason.
> Previously I was imagining a “Sybil” to be some kind of creature that was similar to a gopher, a beaver, or a capybara. For some reason.
First cousin to the Dread Gazebo, I'd wager:
The sibyls were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece.
That's pretty cool.
Still worth to note that in "Sybil attack" the name Sybil is indeed used specifically because of this person.
> It is named after the subject of the book Sybil, a case study of a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder
Archive: https://archive.ph/8dnZH
somebody's debunking is another's occultation intended to improve the efficacy of torture-based techniques used to train non-existing secret agents and other sorts of slaves.
but this is just fantasy, not real life; by science.
Or maybe it’s the debunking that needs a debunking:
https://sybilandmpd.blogspot.com/2011/11/from-sybils-closest...
Dissociative identity disorder[0] remains a perfectly real thing:
https://didiva.com/2011/10/sybil-the-nathan-defamation/
Nathan is an advocacy journalist who argues that federal laws on child pornography and child sexual abuse are too strict. "Sex is such a highly charged issue in our culture that — particularly when it comes to child sex abuse — people are very irrational," Nathan says. "Many people are convicted who are innocent, in my opinion."[1]
Not necessarily a reprehensible take but this plus her “debunking” of DID, SRA, and any connection between pornography and criminality certainly suggests an agenda. The anti-David McGowan basically.
In related news, the real story of Girl, Interrupted is more interesting than one might think: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unlocked-crackpotoberf...
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder
[1]: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154309...