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Self Splitting in the Novels I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and Sybil

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is powerful evidence that extreme trauma can lead to a splitting of personalities, or so it would seem. Two of the most famous stories written about multiple personality disorder are  "Sybil" by Flora Rheta Schreiber and "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" by Joanne Greenberg, both of which have also been made into movies. In the following paper we  examine the two stories, discussing their similarities and differences. The paper then discusses the nature of psychotherapy as it involves the reuniting of personalities into a cohesive self.  Sybil and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden These two stories are essentially examinations of women with personality disorders. Sybil is actually the work of one journalist who interviewed  and researched a true personality disorder while the other is a novel. Each, however, truly brings us different perspectives of this disabling condition. In Sybil we note that the  cause of her condition was severe abuse as a child whereas Deborahs condition is from various traumatic experiences. In the case of Sybil, a woman who eventually came to be  known as a woman with 16 separate personalities, supposedly came from a very bizarre family: "In the book, Sybils mother subjects her to horrifying abuse; many people in Dodge  Center say Mattie (Hattie in the book) was bizarre. She had a witchlike laugh, recalls Christensen. She didnt laugh much, but when she did, it was like a screech. Christensen  remembers the mother walking around after dark, looking in the neighbors windows. She apparently had once been diagnosed as schizophrenic" (Kantrowitz rfasybil.htm). With the case of Deborah we have  a young woman who actually created her own fantasy land called the Kingdom of Yr. The cause of this illusion was apparently due to experiences in her childhood: "As a