For many students, though, working from home was an impossibility due to a lack of digital infrastructure. Newman and her staff quickly mobilized to meet those needs.
Newman and her staff were able to secure and obtain more than laptops to pass along to those students needing a boost to work from home. They also helped set up hot spots and other digital needs to keep students on track. It is assistance like this, in time of large-scale emergencies or smaller personal crisis like childcare or transportation needs, that has earned Newman praise from all corners of the college.
She shrugs it all off though, especially the angel analogy. I know life is not the same for everyone, so I teach them how to be self-advocates. It is my duty to listen.
Normally she just smiles and says she gets that a lot. Sybil also profited, but her true identity remained a secret until after all three women were dead. Much of the sensational story was fabricated, according to journalist and author Debbie Nathan. In the original book, Sybil is portrayed as a young woman who started seeing a psychoanalyst in New York City in the early s. Nathan described what happened after a few sessions, as detailed in the book: "She had a very dramatic moment when she started smashing windows, and split into another personality, into a little girl.
And as she went into further therapy with the therapist, she developed many other personalities, a total of The therapist assumed that something terrible must have happened to her when she was a child to create this kind of splitting in her consciousness. So she spent many years working with her. And ultimately Sybil remembered terrible, hideous sexual abuse and torture by her mother, and once she came to remember that, she reintegrated and was able to have a happy life after that.
So the book had a happy ending. Sybil's case generated widespread fascination both in the general public and the medical community, and a group of psychiatrists and psychologists successfully lobbied to have multiple personality disorder included in the DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Once that happened, the disorder, which had been extremely rare, became a relatively common diagnosis.
And by the late s there were 40, cases diagnosed in the United States alone. The fundamentalist Christian sect taught that people shouldn't read fiction. But Shirley was a highly imaginative child, who loved to make up stories.
By the time Shirley was in college, she was having psychological problems, and she went to see Dr. Wilbur in the s. Wilbur had an interest in multiple personality disorder, and she recommended that Shirley read up on the subject; a mistake, in Nathan's view, as Shirley was so prone to fantasize.
But it wasn't until a few years later, in the early s, that Shirley returned to therapy and the multiple personalities emerged. Wilbur's door and said, 'Hi, I'm Peggy,' a nine-year-old alter personality," Nathan explained. Wilbur barely blinked an eye. She seemed very pleased that she now had a multiple personality disorder patient. She told Shirley she'd treat her for free, on credit, and she began giving her strong psychotropic drugs and barbiturates.
Within a few weeks, [Dr. Wilbur] asked Shirley if she'd like to write a book with her about the case. One of the drugs Dr. Wilbur administered was Thorazine, "an anti-psychotic that can have very, very strong side effects, including hallucinations," Nathan said.
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