Vickie introduces herself to Wilbur at the next session. This girl introduces herself as Peggy, and Wilbur realizes that Sybil is suffering from multiple personality disorder (now known as dissociative identity disorder). Suddenly, Sybil becomes hysterical and begins speaking like a young girl. Wilbur rescues Sybil, who denies knowing Vickie. Wilbur receives a late night call from someone who identifies herself as Vickie and says Sybil is about to jump out a hotel window. Peggy angrily storms out of the cafeteria. Sybil becomes upset and dissociates into Peggy, who becomes enraged and breaks a glass. Sybil's parents make it clear to Sybil that they disapprove of psychiatry. She explains to her father that the problems she used to have as a young girl have returned and that she wants to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Sybil meets them at a cafeteria for lunch. Sybil's father, Willard Dorsett, and her stepmother, Freida, are in New York on a visit. Sybil says she will have to ask her father. She asks Sybil to return at a later date for more counseling. Wilbur theorizes that the incidents are a kind of hysteria, all related to a deeper problem. She admits to having blackouts and fears that they are getting worse.

It is based on the book of the same name, and was broadcast on NBC on November 14–15, 1976.Īfter suffering a small breakdown in front of her students (and then being forced to hear a neighbor play Chopin's Étude in A Minor, 'Winter Wind', incessantly), Sybil Dorsett is given a neurological examination by Dr. Sybil is a 1976 two-part, 3 + 1⁄ 4-hour American made-for-television film starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward. Stage 17, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber