Authors: Debbie Nathan
25.
Ibid.
26.
SAM to FM, 31 October 1962, DE.
27.
SAM to FM, n.d. but by content June 1963, DE.
28.
SAM to FM, 20 January 1963, DE.
29.
SAM to FM, n.d. but by content March 1963, DE.
30.
FM to SAM, 14 March 1963, DE.
31.
SAM to FM, 12 December 1962, DE.
32.
SAM to FM, 16 May 1963, DE.
33.
SAM to WM and FM, 16 March 1961 and 25 January 1962; SAM to WM and FM, postmarked 12 January 1962, all in DE.
34.
Donald S. Connery,
The Inner Source: Exploring Hypnosis
(New York: Helios Press, 2003); Herbert Spiegel, “The Grade 5 syndrome: The highly hypnotizable person,”
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
23:4 (1973): 303–319; Herbert Spiegel, “Memory & Hypnosis: Facts & Fictions,” unpublished paper delivered to the American Psychiatric Association, May 2002, copy in author’s possession.
35.
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, “Sybil—The Making of a Disease: An Interview with Dr. Herbert Spiegel,
New York Review of Books
, 24 April 1997.
36.
Dr. Herbert Spiegel, clinical notes for patient Shirley A. Mason, 20 June 1959 to 27 May 1963. Copy in author’s possession.
37.
FRS Box 37, File 1091, Tape 40, dated 14 March 1960; Tape 44.
38.
Transcript of Tape 18, “Hypnotic Session Feb. 8, 1960,” in FRS Box 37, File 1090; and File 1091, Tape 44.
39.
FRS Box 37, File 1090, Tape 28; and File 1093.
40.
Tape 2, 4 April 1971, Robert Rieber addition to FRS.
41.
FRS Box 37, File 1087, n.d.
42.
Author visit in 2010 to Shirley Mason’s apartment building from 1960 to 1965, at 414 E. 78th Street, New York, NY.
43.
See, for example, SAM to Wyelene Frederickson, 7 December 1964, Daniel Houlihan collection, Mankato, MN, copy in author’s possession; SAM to Lu-ella and Muriel Odden, in MC.
44.
SAM to FM, 28 May 1963, DE; Dr. Herbert Spiegel clinical records for SAM;
SAM to Dr. Cornelia Wilbur n.d., FRS Box 37; see also SAM to FM, postmarked 22 October 1962, DE.
45.
SAM to FM, 29 May 1963, DE; “My Friends, Sybil Dorsett,” FRS Box 26, File 702; Lee Moss, “Putting ‘Sybil’ together,”
Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal
, 18 February 1977, copy in FRS Box 34, File 1072; FRS Box 37, File 1094, Tape 14.
CHAPTER 12
1.
FRS Box 12, File 294, Robert D. Moulton to Cornelia Wilbur, 27 September 1973, and Box 37, Files 1084, 1085; SAM to Wyelene Frederickson, n.d. but by content December 1964, DE; author telephone interview with Robert Moulton’s daughter, Miranda Marland, of Falmouth, ME, December 2010.
2.
FRS Box 37, File 1094, Tape 11, and File 1103.
3.
FRS Box 37, File 1096.
4.
SAM to FM, marked as received 15 August 1963; 16 August 1963; received 10 September 1963, all in DE.
5.
Ibid.
6.
SAM to FM, received 10 September 1963, DE.
7.
STERN.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Stratton L. Douthat, “Weston—Besieged by overpopulation,”
Charleston (WV) Gazette
, 20 December 1965; N. S. Ludington, “Weston Hospital not like Lakin,”
Beckley (WV) Register
, 11 November 1965.
10.
FRS Box 37, File 1095, Tape 130, 12 or 13 August 1970; File 1086.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Ludington, “Weston Hospital”; author telephone interview with Dr. Mildred Bateman, Charleston, WV, December 2009.
13.
STERN; FRS Box 37, File 1096, Tape 12.
14.
As recounted in Schreiber,
Sybil
, 1st ed., p. 400.
15.
Author interview with Brenda Burwell Canning, Cornelia Wilbur’s niece, in An-caster, Ontario, Canada, April 2009. See also photograph of Dr. Cornelia Wilbur in
Pylon
(1967), yearbook of the medical college at West Virginia University.
CHAPTER 13
1.
FRS to Cornelia Wilbur, 23 July 1965; FRS Box 37, File 1102, August 1965; Box 37, File 1102.
2.
Ibid.; FRS Box 37, File 1095, Tape 128.
3.
Cornelia Wilbur to FRS, FRS Box 37, File 1102, 4 August 1965.
4.
Truman Capote, “In Cold Blood,”
The New Yorker
, 25 September, 2 October, 9 October, and 16 October 1965.
5.
George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel,”
New York Times,
Book Review, 16 January 1966, p. 2.
6.
Gerald Clarke,
Capote: A Biography
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988).
7.
Liz Meegan, “Sybil: Not an ordinary girl,”
Moline (IL) Daily Dispatch
, 2 August 1973; and
Peoria Journal Star
, 2 August 1973. Both articles as clippings in FRS Box 1, File 4.
8.
FRS Box 33, Files 1035–1038; FRS, “The Johnson Girls: A Study in Contrasts,”
Family Weekly
, 1 May 1966.
9.
SAM to Luella Odden, December 1966, MC; SAM to FRS, n.d., FRS Box 34, File 10.
10.
Shelby Young, “Sybil unrest: How a shattered woman who became a media sensation found a new beginning in the Mountain State,”
Charleston (WV) Gazette–Mail Putnam Edition
, 19 April 2006. Additional information about Shirley’s tenure at the Lakin hospital from author telephone interview with Mildred Bateman, of Charleston, WV, former head of West Virginia’s Department of Mental Health, December 2009; and SAM to unknown recipient, December 1966, DE.
11.
SAM to Cornelia Wilbur, 4 July 1966, FRS Box 37, File 1102.
12.
FRS to Cornelia Wilbur, 15 August 1966, FRS Box 23, File 624; and Box 37, File 1103.
13.
Information about problems at Weston Hospital from “Situation at Weston has been studied,”
Charleston (WV)
Daily Mail
, 7 December 1967; “Director of Weston State Hospital quits,”
Weirton
(WV) Daily Times
, 31 August 1967; “Smith might want Dr. Bateman out,”
Charleston
(WV)
Gazette
, 24 December 1965; Cornelia Wilbur to FRS, 31 January 1966, FRS Box 37, File 1102.
14.
Author interviews with University of Kentucky Psychiatry Department current and former faculty and staff: Dr. Billie Ables, Dr. Robert Aug, Dr. Lon Hays, Dr. Otto Kaak, Dr. Robert Kraus, Cathy Martin, Dr. Daniel Nahum, Dr. Jim Norton, Richard Welsh, in Lexington, KY, August 2010.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Ibid.
17.
Ibid.
18.
Author telephone interview with Dr. German Gutierrez, of Lexington, KY, April 2010. See also STERN. For mirror gazing research, see Giovanni B. Caputo, “Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion,”
Perception
39 (2010): 1007–1008.
19.
Cornelia Wilbur, “Symposium 44: Recent advances in psychotherapeutic techniques,” reprinted from
Excerpta Medica International Congress,
Series No. 274, Psychiatry (
Part II
).
Proceedings of the V World Congress of Psychiatry,
Mexico, D.F., 25 November–4 December 1971. Copy archived in STERN; and Cornelia Wilbur, “Dual and Multiple Personalities,” read at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Psychiatric Association, Charleston, SC, 4 October 1971, copy archived in STERN.
20.
Author interviews with University of Kentucky doctors and staff (see n. 14). See also Arnold M. Ludwig et al, “The control of violent behavior through faradic shock: A case study,”
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
48:6 (1969): 624–637; Nancy D. Campbell et al.,
The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts
(New York: Abrams, 2008); Arnold M. Ludwig et al.,
LSD and Alcoholism: A Clinical Study of Treatment Efficacy
(Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1970); James Galvin and Arnold Ludwig, “A case of witchcraft,”
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
133 (1961): 161–168; Arnold Ludwig and Jerome Levine, “A controlled comparison of five brief treatment techniques employing LSD, hypnosis, and psychotherapy,”
American Journal of Psychotherapy
19 (1965): 417–435.
21.
Arnold M. Ludwig et al., “The objective study of a multiple personality. Or, are four heads better than one?”
Archives of General Psychiatry
26:4 (1972): 298–310.
22.
Ibid.
23.
Author telephone interview with Prof. Ray Matura, University of Rio Grande & Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH, February 2010.
24.
Information about Flora Schreiber’s affair with Leonard Reisman from author telephone interview with Ben Termine, 23 February 2010. Termine lives in Clearwater, FL. For more on Reisman, see Gerald Markowitz,
Educating for Justice: A History of John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(New York: John Jay Press, 2004); and Ruth Lonsdale audiotaped interview with Flora Rheta Schreiber, 2 August 1984, John Jay College Library Special Collections.
25.
Ruth Lonsdale interview, op. cit.; SAM to FRS, 10 January 1968, FRS Box 37, File 1102.
26.
SAM to FRS, 10 January 1968, FRS Box 37, File 1102.
27.
FRS Box 32, File 1023.
28.
FRS Box 9, File 249; Box 23, Files 626–628; Box 24, Files 681–682; Box 31, File 976; Box 34, File 1070.
29.
Gladys Carr to Patricia Schartle, FRS Box 37, File 1103, 29 October 1969.
30.
FRS to Patricia Schartle, FRS Box 37, File 1104, 6 January 1970; Patricia Shartle to Cornelia Wilbur, 16 February 1970, FRS Box 37, File 1104.
31.
FRS Box 26, File 694.
CHAPTER 14
1.
As transcribed in Schreiber,
Sybil
, 1st ed., pp. 52–53.
2.
FRS to Cornelia Wilbur, 23 July 1965, Box 37, File 1102.
3.
Barbara J. Nelson,
Making an Issue of Child Abuse
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
4.
Ibid.
5.
Lisa Aversa Richette,
The Throwaway Children
(New York: Delta, 1969).
6.
Cornelia Wilbur to FRS, n.d., FRS Box 37, File 1100.
7.
FRS Box 37, File 1093, Tape 66; File 1096, Tape 132; Rieber donation to FRS, Tape 1.
8.
FRS Box 37, File 1082.
9.
FRS and Melvin Herman, “Should Police Use Hypnosis?”
Science Digest
, May 1966, pp. 17–19. Copy in FRS Box 7, File 166.
10.
Cornelia Wilbur to FRS, 4 August 1965, FRS Box 37, File 1102.
11.
FRS Box 37, File 1094, Tape 112, 23 July 1970.
12.
Rieber donation to FRS, Tape 1; FRS Box 37, File 1097, Tape 24.
13.
FRS Box 37, File 1094, Tape 119, “Dr. Wilbur, Sylvia, FRS,” 9 August 1970.
14.
Ibid.
15.
See, e.g., FRS to Mankato Chamber of Commerce, 22 June 1970, FRS Box 37, File 1103.
16.
FRS to Gladys Carr, 7 May 1970, FRS Box 26, File 694.
17.
FRS Box 37, File 1103.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Otoniel Flores’s death data in records of the Minnesota State Historical Society, see
http://people.mnhs.org/dci/Search.cfm;
and reminiscences by his daughter Virginia Cravens, audiotaped interview by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Peter Swales 1998, copy in author’s possession.
23.
FRS Box 37, File 1103.
24.
Author telephone interview with the Winseys’ daughter Chris Winsey-Rudd, of Sarasota, FL, April 2010.
25.
Information and quotations regarding the Winseys’ meeting with Flora are taken from FRS Box 37, File 1094. Date of Winsey-Schreiber meeting taken from FRS Box 37, “Tapes of Interviews of Dr. Wilbur.”