"Freakish as Mason’s condition was, it didn’t quite make for a thrilling narrative, and Schreiber became uncomfortably aware that a lot of the stories elicited from the 'alters' by Wilbur—including a ridiculous tale of a flight to Amsterdam to aid a refugee from the Nazis—were simply impossible. Nevertheless, she plowed ahead, massaging any facts that proved insufficiently sensational, pleading the cause of 'emotional truth' (the same term used by fibbing memoirist James Frey). After the book became a hit, she feuded with her two collaborators and launched a campaign to nominate herself for the Nobel Prize."
Laura Miller in Salon reviews Debbie Nathan's Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case.
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