Episode 1 - Dissociative Identity Disorder

Our first episode takes you through what was once known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Now recognized as Dissociative Identity Disorder, we open our season discussing our curiosities about this mental illness. From the truth about Sybil to recent court cases where D.I.D. was used as a defense, we delve deep into our curiosity. Is D.I.D real? How does one prove the existence of various identities? Was the famous Sybil case fact or fiction? Listen as we try to answer these questions and more.

Hosts:
Quills Rodriguez (Producer)
Penn Aragon (Editor, Podcast Art)

Sources/Citations:

Primal Fear (Film)
1996
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
Produced by Gary Lucchesi, Howard W. Koch, Jr.
Paramount Pictures
United States

Sybil (Film)
1976
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Produced by Jacqueline Babbin
Lorimar Productions
United States

"Meet the Mother with 20 Personalities"
2010
The Oprah Winfrey Show /OWN Oprah Winfrey Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2atzoaA2NI
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"Sybil: A Brilliant Hysteric?"
November 23, 2014
Clyde Haberman
Retro Report | New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRBZ0Kjisl4
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"Sybil Exposed: A College Friend Remembers Shirley Mason"
Published on Dec 28, 2012
Debbie Nathan, author of "Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4S50E4uqTE
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"Famed Psychiatric Story of 'Sybil' seen As a Fraud"
ABC News Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3F94WnlBFw
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"Meet the Six Personalities Living in This Woman's Head"
USA Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWhICGCXnUE
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