Sybil Review

SYBIL

Sybil is a movie about a young woman with multiple personality disorder. Sybil is

suffering from memories of a very traumatic childhood. Sybil grew up with an abusive mother and

her father just seemed to ignore anything that he thought might have been going on. Sybil has

created sixteen different personalities to help herself cope with her childhood. Throughout the

movie you meet most of Sybil’s personalities, who all seem to want to help Sybil. Each

personality is different, but all can relate to Sybil in some way. For example; some of her

personalities had certain talents that Sybil thought she could not do anymore. After an episode in

the park one day where Sybil seemed to blackout, she met a psychiatrist by the name of Dr.

Wilbur. Dr. Wilbur becomes very interested in Sybil and also very dedicated to helping her. Dr.

Wilbur soon finds out that Sybil has sixteen different personalities. The psychiatrist, Dr. Wilbur, is

portrayed as very ethical. In my opinion she never did anything unethical. All she seemed to do

was help Sybil each time she would come and see her. One treatment that Dr. Wilbur uses is

hypnosis. She used this by taking Sybil back to her old house with her abusive mother. This

treatment seemed to be effective because Dr. Wilbur learned some very horrific details about

Sybil’s childhood. Dr. Wilbur would also talk to Sybil’s different personalities and that also helped

her in helping Sybil. At the end of the movie