Today, the psychiatric field knows that multiple personality syndrome, once considered

real, is not actually a thing, but everyone has heard of it and everyone believes in it,

so how did that come to be?

The answer is a very popular TV movie from 1976 called It's Civil.

Today we have a lesson in how easy it is to create a widely believed false story and

how very difficult it is to combat it.

That's coming up next, Unskeptoid.

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The 16 Personalities of Sybil

The 1976 TV movie Sybil starred Sally Field as a woman with multiple personality syndrome.

The movie and the book upon which it was based were fictionalized but were based on a real

person.

The most significant impact of Sybil was to bring the idea of multiple personality syndrome

...