Authors: Debbie Nathan
10.
FRS to Charlotte Gray, 15 October 1975, FRS Box 12, File 297.
11.
Author telephone and in-person interviews with Dr. Stanley Aronson, Providence, RI, January and May 2010.
12.
FRS to Patricia Myrer, 14 November 1977, FRS Box 23, File 635. See other, similar letters in Box 23, File 63. Obituary for Frederick Keith Brown,
New York Times
, 19 October 1976; “Stuart Long dies at 63; ran Texas news service,”
New York Times
, 4 February 1977; author telephone interview with Flora Schreiber’s research assistant during the late 1970s, James McLain, of Milford, PA, May 2010.
CHAPTER 19
1.
Author telephone interview with Flora Schreiber’s research assistant during the late 1970s, James McLain, of Milford, PA, May 2010.
2.
FRS to Patricia Myrer, 30 October 1975, FRS Box 23, File 635.
3.
FRS Box 15, File 407, Joe Kallinger to FRS, 8 August 1975.
4.
FRS Box 15, File 407, FRS to Joe Kallinger, 8 September 1975.
5.
Patricia Myrer to Harvey Plotnick, 26 March 1976, FRS Box 30, File 941; Patricia Myrer to FRS, 28 June 1976, FRS Box 8, File 197; FRS to Eugene Winick, 7 September 1985, FRS Box 8, File 197; Box 2, File 38; Box 18, File 521.
6.
Flora Rheta Schreiber,
The Shoemaker
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), pp. 19, 347.
7.
Linda Matchan, “Stalking a killer’s evil demons,”
Boston Globe
, 30 October 1983, Living section, p. 1; FRS Box 3, File 54; Box 5, File 88.
8.
Author telephone interview with Flora Schreiber’s good friend Ben Termine, of Clearwater, FL, February 2010.
9.
Interview with Peggy Polumbo, FRS Box 14, File 402.
10.
Schreiber,
The Shoemaker.
11.
Pat Myrer to FRS, 10 September 1975, FRS Box 23, File 635.
12.
Kirkus Reviews
, 1 May 1983; Chris Wall, “Looking for answers to a psycho killer,”
Los Angeles Times
, 2 August 1983; Paul Robinson, “Demon in the Little
Bird,”
Psychology Today
, July 1983; Shirley Horner, “About Books,”
New York Times
(New Jersey Section), 31 July 1983.
13.
FRS Box 2, Files 21–25 and 27.
14.
FRS Box 1, File 15; FRS Box 8, Files 222 and 223.
15.
FRS Box 5, File 103, FRS to Eugene Winick, 20 August 1985; Evva Pryor to Sydell Albert, 20 November 1986; “Part Two: Mistaken Identity Sequences”; File 295; FRS Box 8, File 197, FRS to Eugene Winick, 15 July 1986.
16.
For Rudolph Hess see FRS Box 5, Files 100, 100(a); for age misstatement see “Contemporary Authors (copy for revision),” FRS Box 8, File 207.
17.
FRS to Cornelia Wilbur, 14 March 1987, FRS Box 1, File 5.
18.
FRS Box 3, File 88, FRS to Joe Kallinger, 27 August 1988.
19.
FRS Box 3, File 88, September 23, 1988, John Shapiro to Joseph Kallinger.
20.
FRS Box 3, File 88, FRS to Joseph Kallinger, 4 October 1988.
21.
FRS Box 3, File 88, John Shapiro to Joseph Kallinger, 20 October 1988.
22.
Author interview with Flora Schreiber’s cousin Stanley Aronson, in Providence, RI, May 2010.
23.
FRS Box 8, File 223.
24.
Andrew Yarrow, “Flora Schreiber, 70, the writer of ‘Sybil’ and of ‘Shoemaker,’”
New York Times
, 4 November 1988.
CHAPTER 20
1.
Information about the founding of the Open Hospital from author personal interview with Dr. Rosa K. Riggs, in Lexington, KY, July 2010.
2.
Author personal interview in October 2009 with a former nurse from the Southwestern United States; and from the 1979 diary of the mother of an Open Hospital patient, who has requested anonymity.
3.
Letters from Heather (since deceased, last name withheld at family’s request), a newly admitted Open Hospital patient, to her family: 13 January 1979 and n.d., copies in author’s possession; diary of Heather’s mother.
4.
Heather to “Mom and Dad,” 13 January 1979, copy in author’s possession.
5.
Heather to her family, 4 July 1979, copy in author’s possession; Lucy Freeman,
Nightmare
(New York: Richardson Steirman, 1987), p. 223.
6.
Heather’s medical background from her family and from author personal interview with Dr. Billie Ables, in Lexington, KY, one of Heather’s therapists after she left the Open Hospital.
7.
Cornelia Wilbur to Heather’s mother, 16 January 1979, copy in author’s possession.
8.
Author interview with Dr. Billie Ables; author telephone interview with Heather’s mother, May 2010.
9.
Rosa K. Riggs, interview.
10.
Ibid., and Heather to her family, 15 September 1980, copy in author’s possession.
11.
John Van, “Multiple personalities put creative talents to profitable work,”
Chicago Tribune
, 29 May 1979, Tempo section. For further evidence that Connie asked literary agents in New York to help publish her MPD patients’ work, see Anita Diamant to Cornelia Wilbur, March 1980 and 3 July 1980, copies in author’s possession.
12.
DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
(Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1980), p. 257.
13.
Sandy Pearl, producer, and Jane Wallace, reporter, “Multiple Personalities: People in Pieces,” WABC-TV
Eyewitness News
, 11–14 November 1980; Diary of Heather’s mother, early 1979.
14.
Author interview with Dr. Robert Kraus in Lexington, KY, July 2010.
15.
For Mason Arts, see FRS Box 9, File 225.
16.
Author interview with Brenda Burwell Canning in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, April 2009. She is the source for the subsequent account of life in Connie’s house.
17.
List of audiotapes for sale from ISSMP&D conferences: 1984–1988, copy in author’s possession.
18.
Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur, “MPD & Child Abuse: An Etiologic Overview” (Plenary Session, First International Conference on Multiple Personality/Dissociative States, 1984). Tape in author’s possession.
19.
Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith,
Michelle Remembers
(New York: St. Martins, 1980).
20.
Wilbur, “MPD & Child Abuse.”
21.
Ibid.
22.
See Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker,
Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
(New York: Basic, 1995).
23.
Audiotape list, see note 17.
24.
DSM-III
, p. 258;
DSM-III-R
(1987), p. 271.
25.
G. K. Ganaway, “Historical versus narrative truth: Clarifying the role of exogenous
trauma in the etiology of MPD and its variants,”
Dissociation
2:4 (1989): 205–220; Bill Moyers, “The Chemical Communicators,” in
Healing and the Mind
(New York: Doubleday, 1993).
26.
P. M. Coons, “The differential diagnosis of multiple personality,”
Psychiatric Clinics of North America
12 (1984): 51–57. Colin Ross et al., “Dissociative experiences in the general population: A factor analysis,”
Hospital Community Psychiatry
42 (March 1991): 297–301. Richard J. Lowenstein, interviewed in Ilan Flammer and Sherrill Mulhern,
La mémoire abusée
(Paris: Eva I Communication, 1993).
27.
Lowenstein, in Flammer,
La mémoire
.
28.
George B. Greaves and George H. Faust, “Legal and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders,” in Larry K. Michelson and William J. Ray (eds.),
Handbook of Dissociation
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1996), p. 600.
29.
“Evening with Cornelia B. Wilbur, M.D.,” Cornelia Wilbur address to the Eastern Regional Conference on Multiple Personality and Dissociation, 23 June 1989, Alexandria, VA. Audiotape in author’s possession.
30.
See, e.g., John Lindenbaum et al., “Neuropsychiatric disorders caused by cobalamin deficiency in the absence of anemia or macrocytosis,”
New England Journal of Medicine
318 (30 June 1988): 1720–1728; A. D. M. Smith, “Megaloblastic madness,”
British Medical Journal
, 24 December 1960, pp. 1840–1845; Pernicious Anaema Society Symptom Checklist, at
www.pernicious-anaemia-society.org/
; “Pernicious Anemia and Other Megaloblastic Anemias,” in Robert E. Rakel and Edward T. Bope,
Conn’s Current Therapy
2009 (Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2009), pp. 394–397. For further psychiatric symptoms in pernicious anemia, see Paul W. Preu and Arthur J. Geiger, “Symptomatic psychosis in pernicious anemia,”
Annals of Internal Medicine
9:6 (1 December 1935): 766–778. For psychiatric symptoms and early twentieth-century use of liver extract to treat anemia, see Lawrence Kass,
Pernicious Anemia
(Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1976).
31.
Author personal interview of Roberta Guy, of Lexington, KY, July 2010. Guy was Connie’s nurse in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
32.
Cornelia Burwell Wilbur death certificate, on file with Kentucky Department for Health Services Registrar of Vital Statistics.
33.
Richard P. Kluft, “Cornelia B. Wilbur, M.D.,”
Dissociation
5:2 (1992): 71–72.
34.
Last Will and Testament of Cornelia B. Wilbur, on file in Lexington, KY. At Fayette County Probate Court.
35.
Author personal interview with Dianne Morrow in Landsdowne, PA. She is the daughter of Jeannette Morrow, who died in 2009.
36.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 21
1.
Jeanne A. Heaton and Nona L. Wilson,
Tuning in Trouble
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995), p. 134.
2.
C. Gorney, “The many women on the witness stand,”
Washington Post
, 8 November 1990.
3.
“A Star Cries Incest,”
People
, 7 October 1991, pp. 84–88.
4.
Gloria Steinem,
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self Esteem
(New York: Little Brown, 1992), p. 318.
5.
For Mulhern’s work during this period, see, e.g., “Satanism and Psychotherapy: A Rumor in Search of an Inquisition,” in James T. Richardson et al. (eds.),
The Satanism Scare
(New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), pp. 145–172.
6.
Joan Acocella,
Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999).
7.
False Memory Syndrome Foundation Newsletter
, 5 February 1993, available in March 2011 at <
www.fmsonline.org/newsletters.html
>
8.
Author telephone interview with Jeanette Bartha, of Denver, CO.
9.
Glenn Kessler, “Mining gold in memory business,”
Newsday
(Long Island, NY), 28 November 1993; Rosie Waterhouse, “There’ll be the devil to pay,”
London Independent
, 17 October 1994; Bonnie Gangelhoff, “Diagnosis,”
Houston Press
, 6 July 1995.
10.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM- IV)
(Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994), pp. 485, 487;
DSM-IV Guidebook
(Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1995), p. 304.
11.
DSM-IV
, pp. 843–849; Yolanda Kays Jackson (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006).
12.
Walter Goodman, “Television Review: Who programmed Mary? Could it be Satan?”
New York Times
, 24 October 1995.
13.
Pam Belluck, “She recovered memories, then millions in damages,”
New York Times
, 9 November 1997.
14.
Acocella,
Creating Hysteria.
15.
Helen Kennedy, “Devil doc a crock,”
New York Daily News
, 13 February 1997.