Flora Rheta Schreiber

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Flora Rheta Schreiber (born April 24, 1918 in New York City , † November 3, 1988 there ) was an American journalist .

She also became known in Europe with her bestseller Sybil , the report about a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder (former name: hysterical neurosis of the dissociative type). The real name of this patient was later announced; her story was filmed twice for television in the USA (1976 and 2007). Her second book, translated into German, was about the American serial killer Joseph Kallinger .

Works

  • William Schuman (with Vincent Persichetti ). Schirmer, New York 1954
  • Your Child's Speech. A Practical Guide for Parents for the First Five Years . Putnam's Sons, New York 1956
  • A Job With a Future in Law Enforcement and Related Fields . Grosset & Dunlap, New York 1970
  • Sybil. The True Story Of A Woman Possessed By 16 Separate Personalities . Regnery, Chicago 1973
    • in German: Sybil. A woman with many faces . Scherz, Bern / Munich 1974
      • Paperback as: Sybil. Split personality in a woman . Kindler (Geist and Psyche 2178), Munich 1977
  • The Shoemaker. The Anatomy Of A Psychotic . Simon and Schuster, New York 1983
    • in German: The murderer. From the martyrdom of a child to the life tragedy of a damned man . Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1985; Goldmann, Munich 1987

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personal data
SURNAME Clerk, Flora Rheta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1988
Place of death New York City