Can't blame you for not finishing it! She clearly had an agenda, which I knew going in, and when she made editorial interpretations or broad/general statements, I mostly took those with a whole scoop of salt.
And there was one point where I knew offhand that she was wrong on the facts. (She thought that all the headmates in The Dissociation Of A Personality were adults the same age as their body, even though one was a 14-year-old.)
So with all that, it was really noticeable when Nathan included details that didn't forward her agenda. If Sybil had childhood traumas and dissociative-sounding symptoms that even the "child abuse and DID don't real" journalist is acknowledging...that much of Sybil's backstory is probably true, you know?
I'm not going to end up reading a 500-page bookslab (I don't plan on reading Satan's Silence itself, either), but if you have any shorter things on the topic to rec, I would check them out!
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And there was one point where I knew offhand that she was wrong on the facts. (She thought that all the headmates in The Dissociation Of A Personality were adults the same age as their body, even though one was a 14-year-old.)
So with all that, it was really noticeable when Nathan included details that didn't forward her agenda. If Sybil had childhood traumas and dissociative-sounding symptoms that even the "child abuse and DID don't real" journalist is acknowledging...that much of Sybil's backstory is probably true, you know?
I'm not going to end up reading a 500-page bookslab (I don't plan on reading Satan's Silence itself, either), but if you have any shorter things on the topic to rec, I would check them out!