Sybil's Multiple Personality Disorder

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The movie,Sybil, is about a young woman with a multiple personality disorder. Sybil is suffering from memories of a very traumatic childhood due to her having an extremely abusive mother and a non-attentive father. Sybil used the defense mechanisms of repression in order to repress and forget her childhood past.Repression allowed her to go on with her life. Although repression was able to help her temporarily, that is, she was able to graduate in college and to apply for graduate studies despite all the abuse. In the long run, however, these memories haunted Sybil and they begin to have an effect on her personality, in fact creating several different personalities that allowed Sybil to handle certain pressures or stresses. One day Sybil

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