10 Movies That Changed How Multiple Personality Disorder Is Perceived (Even In The Psychiatric Community)

4. Sybil

It is a film based on the true story of Shirley Ardell Mason, renamed Sybil (Sally Field), which tells what a young artist endures when she begins to suffer from memory loss for short periods, waking up in unknown places and with injuries on the body. Determined to seek help, she undergoes psychiatric therapy which will reveal that she is not alone but accompanied by 15 other personalities.

The impact of this film goes beyond cinema; it opened a debate in the psychiatric community and led to the inclusion of what was then called multiple personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), published by the Association American psychiatric.