Lcteristics resemble those of the Peggys.<br >sell (1928): listless to the point of<br >pale and timid with ash-blonde hair， an<br > a straight nose.<br >idate undetermined): a baby; one of the<br >ed selves.<br >late undetermined): intensely religious;<br >of the wakhag Sybil.<br >1929): intensely afraid but determined<br >~llment; she has light brown hair， hazel<br >~t nose， and thin lips.<br >:t (1928): serene， vivacious， and quick<br >ase; a small， willowy brunette with fair<br >lg nose.<br >~6): nameless; a perpetual teenager; has<br >hair and a luting voice.<br >(1965): the seventeenth self; an amal-<br >~her sixteen selves.<br >12<br >Preface:<br >Sybil<br > This book goes to press over ten years after I first<br >met the woman to whom I have given the pseudonym<br >Sybil Isabel Dorsett. Sybil wants to maintain anonymity，<br >and when you read her true story， you will understand<br >why， But Sybil Isabel Dorsett is a real person.<br > Our first meeting took place on an autumn evening<br >in 1962 at-a restaurant on New York City s Madison<br >Avenue. Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur， Sybil s psychoanalyst，<br >/lad arranged the meeting so that I could becgme ac-<br > inted with Sybil.<br > ybil seemed constrained and remote. I knew that<br >this was because of her illness. Dr. Wilbur and she had<br >embarked on one of the most complex and most bizarre<br >cases in the history of psychiatry--the first psycho-<br >analysis of a multiple personality.<br > I had known about the case for some years. Dr. Wil-<br >bur s and my paths had often crossed through my work<br >as psychiatry editor of Science Digest and as the author<br >of articles about psychiatric subjects. A few of these<br >articles， in fact， had been about her cases.<br > The meeting was arranged for a specific purpose:<br >Dr. Wilbur wondered whether I would be interested in<br >writing about Sybil. It was not sufficient， the doctor be-<br >lieved， to present this history-making case in a medical<br >journal， because in addition to great medical signifi-<br >cance， the case had broad psychological "and philo-<br >sophical implications for the general public.<br > Iwanted to wait for the outcome of the case priorto<br >13<br ><br >