Sybil Exposed (43 page)

26.
Tape 2, Robert Rieber donation to FRS.

CHAPTER 6

1.
Michele Hilmes,
Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922–1952
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

2.
Flora left no evidence in her archive that she had ever volunteered at WNYC. But definitive records in Germany attest that, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, she was assisting the Marxist philosopher Theodor Adorno when he was a refugee from Naziism in New York City and was writing scripts for shows for WNYC. See Stefan Müller-Doohm,
Adorno: A Biography
(Cambridge, England: Polity, 2004), p. 253; Theodor Adorno,
Current of Music
, ed. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Cambridge, England: Polity, 2009).

3.
Hilmes,
Radio Voices
; for George Kondolf, see Douglas McGill, “George Kondolf is dead at 85: Theater and radio producer,”
New York Times
, 26 December 1985, viewed online March 2011 at
www.nytimes.com/1985/12/26/arts/george-kondolf-is-dead-at-85-theater-and-radio-producer.html>;
Irving Foulds Luscombe, “WNYC: 1922–1940—The Early History of a Twentieth-Century Urban Service” (Ph.D. dissertation, Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1968).

4.
Haym [sic] Solomon
and
Metamorphosis
typescripts in FRS Box 27, File 724.

5.
FRS Resume; Flora Rheta Schreiber, “Battle of the Soap Opera,”
Film and Radio Discussion Guide
10:7 (April 1944): 16, copy in FRS Box 6, File 125.

6.
Flora Rheta Schreiber, “Television: A New Idiom,”
Hollywood Quarterly
, Winter 1949; FRS Box 6, Files 136 and 137.

7.
Author telephone interview in February 2010 with Flora’s Brooklyn College colleague Georgiana Peacher, of Brunswick, ME.

8.
FRS Box 31, File 1006.

9.
FRS Box 31, File 1003.

10.
“Popularity of the soap opera analyzed by Eugene O’Neill, Jr.,”
Lewiston (ME) Daily Sun
, 17 February 1950. Information about O’Neill Jr.’s life and death is
from Croswell Bowen,
The Curse of the Misbegotten
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959); Arthur and Barbara Gelb,
O’Neill
(New York: Harper & Row, 1960; subsequent editions 1962, 1973); Louis Sheaffer,
O’Neill: Son and Artist
(New York: Little Brown, 1973).

11.
FRS Box 34, File 1051.

12.
Ibid.

13.
See, e.g., “O’Neill suicide has tragic note,”
(Bend, OR) Bulletin
, 26 September 1950.

14.
FRS Box 34, Files 1054, 1056.

CHAPTER 7

1.
FRS Box 37, File 1095, Tape 116.

2.
SAM to Luella Warnke, postmarked 16 January 1944, MC.

3.
Author interview with Jean Lane, May 2008, in Portland Oregon; SAM to Miss Frederickson, 14 December 1948, DE; SAM to Luella Warnke, n.d., MC.

4.
FRS Box 37, File 1095.

5.
Author interview with David Eichman, of Rosenburg, OR, May 2008; SAM to Luella Odden, MC.

6.
“Annual Commencement Art Exhibit” (invitation), Mankato State Teachers College, 27 May–3 June 1949, DE.

7.
Shirley Mason resume in FRS Box 37, File 1078; DE op. cit.; FRS Box 37, File 1080; SAM to Miss Frederickson, 14 December 1948 and 5 December 1950, Daniel Houlihan Collection, Mankato, MN, copies in author’s possession.

8.
Shirley Mason resume; SAM to FM, postmarked 4 October 1952, DE.

9.
SAM to FM, ibid.; SAM to FM postmarked 4 January 1954; SAM to 15 April 1954, all in DE.

10.
FRS Box 37, File 1095.

11.
Mabel Curry, “Memphis artist wins recognition with paintings,”
Port Huron (MI) Times-Herald
, 30 November 1952; author interview with Earlene King, director, Dodge County, MN Historical Society; Dodge County Sesquicen-tennial,
150 Dodge County Fairs: 1857–2007
(available at the Dodge County Historical Society, Mantorville, MN).

12.
Author interview with Jean Lane in Portland, OR, May 2008.

13.
SAM to FM, n.d. but by context early 1954; SAM to FM, 10 November 1954. Both in DE.

14.
SAM to FM postmarked 6 October 1954; SAM to FM, n.d. but letter appears to have been written October 1954. Both in DE.

15.
“Cornelia Wilbur” entry in
Biographical Directory of Fellows and Members of the American Psychiatric Association
(New York: American Psychiatric Association, 1950); M. J. Tissenbaum and H. M. Harter, “Survey of a mental hygiene clinic—21 months of operation,”
Psychiatric Quarterly
24:4 (1950): 677–705.

16.
Stephen Farber and Marc Green,
Hollywood on the Couch
(New York: Morrow, 1993).

17.
James Strachey and Anna Freud (eds.),
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
(London: Hogarth Press, 1966), Vol. 23, p. 228.

18.
“Medicine for the psyche,”
Time Magazine
, 2 September 1946, accessed in 2010 at
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,803953,00.html

19.
Farber and Green,
Hollywood on the Couch.

20.
For neo-Freudian ideas, see Nathan G. Hale, Jr.,
The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States
(New York: Oxford, 1995), and Joel Kovel,
A Complete Guide to Therapy
(New York: Pantheon, 1975). For Frieda FrommReichmann’s ideas, see Edward Dolnick,
Madness on the Couch
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), p. 99, quoting from Jeanne Block et al., “A study of the parents of schizophrenic and neurotic children,”
Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes
21 (1958): 387–397.

21.
William V. Silverberg,
Childhood Experience and Personal Destiny: A Psychoanalytic Study of Neurosis
(New York: Springer, 1952), p. 254.

22.
Biographical Directory of Fellows and Members of the APA.

23.
Ibid.

24.
STERN.

25.
Biographical Directory of Fellows and Members of the APA.

26.
Author telephone interview with Keith Brown’s niece Deborah Brown Kovac, of Bushnell, IL, November 2008.

27.
The Michigan Alumnus
60 (October 3, 1953 to August 7, 1954): 148.

28.
FRS Box 37, File 1102.

29.
See Connie’s contributions in Alfred H. Rifkin (ed.),
Schizophrenia in Psychoanalytic Office Practice
(New York: Grune & Stratton, 1957).

30.
STERN.

31.
Author telephone interview with Dr. Arthur Zitrin, New York City, October 2009.

32.
C. H. Thigpen and H. Cleckley, “A case of multiple personality,”
Journal of Ab-normal and Social Psychology
49(1954):135–151. Quotes from pp. 137, 141–142, 145. A later version of the film shown at the meeting is available as
A Case Study in Multiple Personality: The Three Faces of Eve,
Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M Cleckley (University Park, PA: Penn State Media Sales, and New York: Insight Media, 2006/1954).

33.
“Medicine: Order in Disorder?”
Time
, 18 May 1953, retrieved December 2009 at <
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,818495,00.html
>

34.
Thigpen and Cleckley, “A case of multiple personality,” p. 148.

35.
Rennie Taylor, Associated Press: “Demure brunette, ‘devilish creature’ puzzles doctors,”
Eugene (OR) Register-Guard
, 9 May 1953. Retrieved December 2009 at
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4IcRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6353,1318497&dq=eve+black&hl=en

36.
For Rennie Taylor’s background as an Associated Press science writer, see “Science: Skeptic’s Prize,”
Time
3 July 1978, retrieved December 2009 at <
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946008,00.html
>; Thigpen and Cleckley, “A case of multiple personality.”

CHAPTER 8

1.
SAM to WM, n.d. but from context, September or October 1954. DE.

2.
Ibid.

3.
FRS Box 37, File 1095, Tape 116.

4.
Edward Shorter,
Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

5.
For Shirley Mason’s Seconal dosage see FRS Box 37, Files 1081, 1084. For her Demerol consumption, see FRS Box 37, File 1086. For Edrisal and Daprisal dosages, see FRS Box 37, File 1083. For side effects of Seconal, Demerol, and amphetamines, see H. Winter Griffith et al.,
Complete Guide to Prescription and Non-Prescription Drugs 2011
(New York: Penguin, 2010).

6.
SAM to Miss Weblemoe, 26 May 1958, FRS Box 37, File 1099; Robert Rieber donation to FRS, Tape 1.

7.
SAM treatment diary in FRS Box 37, File 1081 (21 February 1956).

8.
Robert Reiber donation to FRS, Tape 1.

9.
STERN; Connie Wilbur to FRS, 26 July 1965, FRS Box 37, File 1102.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Record of therapy, FRS Box 37, File 1098; SAM to Miss Weblemoe, 26 May 1958, FRS Box 37, File 1099.

12.
Robert Rieber donation to FRS, Tape 1; FRS Box 37, Files 1081, 1097, 1099 (therapy diary, 26 May 1958), 1102.

13.
FRS Box 37, File 1089, “Tape 5/6.”

14.
Robert Rieber donation to FRS, Tape 1.

15.
FRS Box 37, Files 1081 (Analysis Diary 9 January 1956, 13 June 1956, 15 November 1956), 1082, 1083; Rieber addition to FRS, Tape 1.

16.
FRS Box 37, File 1089, Tape 5/6; Flora Rheta Schreiber,
Sybil,
1st ed. (Chicago: Regnery, 1973).

17.
“John Greenwald dies from gun accident,”
Dodge County Republican
, 29 August 1940, available at the Minnesota Historical Society archives, Minneapolis. Online death record viewed December 2011 at <
http://people.mnhs.org/dci/
>

18.
FRS Box 37, File 1089, “Tape 5/6” transcription.

19.
FRS Box 37, File 1085 (11 October 1958).

20.
FRS Box 37, File 1090.

21.
FRS Box 37, File 1084; SAM to FM, 3 February 1955, DE, copy in author’s possession.

22.
FRS Box 37, Files 1082, 1097, Tape 124.

23.
FRS Box 37, File 1103.

24.
FRS Box 37, Files 1087, 1101, 1103.

25.
FRS Box 37, File 1081 (Shirley Mason treatment diary, 17 January 1956); SAM to Miss Weblemoe, 26 May 1958, FRS Box 37, File 1099.

26.
FRS Box 37, File 1081, treatment diary, 20 December 1955.

27.
Ibid., treatment diary, 4 November 1955, 18 November 1955.

28.
Ibid., treatment diary, 25 November 1955.

29.
Ibid., treatment diary, 14 December 1955; SAM to Luella Warnke Odden, 1956, in MC.

30.
FRS Box 37, File 1081, treatment diary, 15 December 1955 and 9 January 1956.

31.
FRS Box 37, File 1081, treatment diary, 9 and 12 January 1956. For Lorand’s biography see Franz Alexander et al. (eds.),
Psychoanalytic Pioneers
(New York: Basic Books, 1966).

32.
SAM to Florence Eichman, 4 May 1963, DE.

33.
FRS Box 37, Files 1081, 1983, 1090, 1094; SAM to Miss Weblemoe, 26 May 1958 in FRS Box 37, File 1099.

34.
FRS Box 37, File 1081.

35.
FRS Box 37, File 1081. For media claims and for side effects of Miltown and related new drugs of the 1950s see Jonathan Metzl,
Prozac on the Couch
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005); and Shorter,
Before Prozac.