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Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (died 1998)

Historical image related to Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (died 1998) from January 25, 1923

Shirley Ardell Mason

American art teacher (1923–1998)

Shirley Ardell Mason was an American art teacher who was reported to have dissociative identity disorder. Her life was purportedly described, with adaptations to protect her anonymity, in 1973 in the book Sybil, subtitled The True Story of a Woman Possessed by 16 Separate…
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Psychiatry

Branch of medicine devoted to mental disorders

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, mood, emotion, and behavior.
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