Elle Fanning and Sarah Paulson are to star in 'I Am Sybil'. The pair have boarded the movie that is to be co-written and directed by Mirrah Foulkes.
The picture is to explore the true story behind the cultural-sensation case of Sybil, one of the first mainstream cases of dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder), which raised questions in the public consciousness around identity and mental health.
Sybil was a pseudonym given to art teacher Shirley Mason in a 1973 work of non-fiction by Flora Rheta Schreiber – which assessed her treatment for multiple personality disorder by psychologist Connie Wilbur.
The film will draw on Debbie Nathan's 2011 book 'Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case', one of several texts that disputes Schreiber's account of the case.
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