The actress who played the mother..her name is Martine Bartlett worked on stage with Paul Newman in Tennesse Williams Sweet Bird of Youth..was Miss Metcalf, the teacher in Splendor in The Grass.
This was very, very, very important movie to be made. Look up the section where they were trying to find what actress would play. Sally researched the whole script before trying out. Back then neighbors minded their own . This brought to light mental illness. This doctor was great to have recorded everything and write the book. Real life is scarier than fiction movies.
Many mistake the piano scene of her holding her urine and wetting herself. It was actually the water from the ice water enema she was made to hold in her bowels. Urine retention has however been used as a form of punishment for children. I knew a guy years ago that had this punishment as a kid. He would have to hold it all day and if he wet himself he would get spanked and have to repeat it the next day.
Yes, she filled her bladder at times. And frequent enemas, and being made to 'hold it' while the vibrations from the piano being pounded caused agony. The worst and most invasive abuse was depicted in the movie, which surprised me as it was made in '77. But it was necessary to show trauma that could possibly cause a 'self' to fragment.
This is so upsetting to watch. The mother practically molested her by putting water up her parts. That is major trauma for a child. Now days that would be jail time. Poor Sybil!
According to the book it would be revealed that her mother did much worse. Her mother was an untreated schizophrenic that believed that there was nothing wrong with her
@@starlightperkins330Yes, and Hattie’s husband was worse than that. He didn’t believe that Hattie was ever sick, their church preached against psychiatrists. So, of course Willard never got Hattie any help. Willard truly didn’t know Sybil was being sexually and physically abused by Hattie. But everyone else around them knew.
Some human beings are far more frightening than the worst snakes and vermin there is. Most are wonderful-but it's this kind of crazy #%^* that is upsetting. Name a species on Earth that tortures there own offspring??
Oh yes.... That is what humans do, we are the most hideous and disgusting thing . I really think we should not exist. We only abuse, violate, denigrate and destroy, other people, animals, nature .. etc. Humans are the worst and we are far too many
I'm sorry but. This is the truth it is the truth this movie is based off the truth. I am not being sarcastic The knife "it was a shoe hook" was for holding her vagina open so she could pour the scalding hot enema down her vagina (not even susposed to do that) she would play the piano for like 3 mins (imagine peeing for 1 second and having to hold it for 3 minutes.) and if she peed she would get hit. and most likely do it again. They would do that multiple times a day after every meal if she wasn't using the bathroom correctly or every 30 minutes.
Slenderman Sybil was placed up against the piano to also receive the VIBRATIONS and humming from the piano making her wish to release her bowels even sooner. Her mother was a monster
Slenderman The mother used the buttonhook to scrape at the innerwall of her uterus and vagina, and then she would pour the enema in with the disinfectant till it was completely overflowing and then she took her in the other room, tied her to the piano and forced her to hold all of the water in, sometimes until she passed out, like in this scene, and if she didn't hold it in, then her mom would just take her back into the kitchen and do it all over again until she could hold it. Oh, & by the way, that wasn't her peeing on the floor towards the end. It was just the water because she passed out and couldn't hold the water in any longer. Not trying to be sarcastic or snotty or anything. It's incredibly screwed up and brought me to tears when I watched it in my psych class.
Krystal - toxins absorbed from the intestine affect behavior/mental health. Treating constipation or slow colon/rectum transit times (the two are synonymous) is bound to overlap with punishment.
"Spanking kids is so abusive! " Umm.. no. This folks is abuse. A spank of the butt or hand to teach a lesson of no. Understandable. This is abuse. Hurting a child for no reason or giving a punishment worse than just a lesson is abuse. Don't be abusive
Um, do you know the difference between abuse and torture? They are not comparable. Nor can you compare spanking to discipline. They are not one of the same. If you knew how to discipline you wouldn't have to resort to spanking. Much like if a dog knew how to communicate it would never have to resort to biting. I've raised 5 wonderful well educated and proud children without ever having to hurt them to make them understand the exact nature of what they are doing wrong. Resorting to a violent act to make a point is simply lazy parenting. I'm not a bible thumper by any stretch of the imagination but if you believe that sort of thing then read Matthew 5:37. I'm not really into that sort of thing but I'm trying to reach you by speaking the language.
I was hoping someone would say that! Let's think a moment. "The rod" what is it used for? In the biblical days a rod was used to GUIDE sheep. Not beat to beat them but to block them from going off course. it was hold straight out with a firm hand and kept the flock (not just one but the flock) from veering off course and entering unsafe territory. When the sheep would wander into the rod while being herded it would pull back into line. If you hit a sheep with a rod on the ass, it would run faster and harder in the direction it had been going and enter dangerous territory. If you spare the rod, you are then slacking as a shepard and not to have much in the way of a flock. They'll be eaten right up, stolen, follow other herds ect.
So your pastor misinterpreted the bible or...? What's your point? If something THAT big was left out of the bible then I guess you'd have to say your God hasn't got enough control over things to make sure it was left IN the bible. Otherwise I'm going to believe that when he said sheep were guided away from the mouths of wolves... that's probably what he meant. It was pretty important to keep your sheep together at night because the wolves hid in wooded dark areas and attacked by night. Strange to think a good shepard would break the legs of the sheep he was watching out for considering , to do so would put them, as well as the others in danger. Kind of a dumb theory. If he breaks their legs, the wolves will eat them and wasting food back then was a pretty big "no no" , If you had to carry your broken legged sheep, you would be less able to care for your flock. If you leave it for the wolves to eat they will react like they are at a lunch buffet. So, in essense if you beat on your children you are putting them as well as your other children deeper into harms way. Take a moment and use the brain your God gave you for a nano second to think for yourself. Your pastor isn't reading you a bedtime story. I suppose he could tell you just about anything and you'd believe it. Read and think for yourself. Take some time out to imagine what things were like back then and try to imagine what is being said. You spent a long enough time reading my comments. I would imagine you have the same time to read from the book you are claiming drives your life.
@@grettagrids So do those so called pelvic exams these sick ass Gynos give. I had two of them in my life. The first one was when I was eighteen. I was taken by my mother who out and out lied to me telling me" No it doesn't hurt!" BULLSHIT! And the last time and l mean the last time was 2010 and done by a woman that time and this bitch was rough and it STILL hurt like someone sticking a flaming hot poker up in me and I bled. I am not married and have never had sex either. My father took me to that exam. I'd rather have someone stick me with needles to take blood out of my arm every six months than to have to endure that fifteen minutes of Hell on earth again.
I don't know if you are trolling, but this ain't a plot, this movie is based on a real clinic case, the person with the most extreme dissociative identity disorder was called Sybil and this movie it's all her real life story... sadly.
jacobygreenwood DID isn't accepted as a legitimate disorder in the psychiatric and psychological world, and is typically only "seen" in patients who later confess to lying about their alternate personalities due to attention-seeking behavior associated with various real disorders, such as Histrionic and Borderline. There was a period from the fifties into the early eighties where the term was still being applied with trepidation to Schizophrenic patients, hence the occasional overlap of the terms in modern colloquium. The diagnoses in the US were two a year before this came out, and over a thousand a year after. Also, there have been remarkably few reported cases of this outside of the English-speaking world, where Sybil is most popular. The original book itself has been sharply criticized by the entire psychological and medical community, and the majority of analysts, specialists and critics agree the was fabricated by the doctor manipulating the alleged patient, who was likely mentally unstable and vulnerable to suggestion. All that aside, the movie is a.classic. It's an amazing, truly chilling performace.
John G Actually, DID is accepted in the psychological world. I don't know where you got the idea that it is not, but it definitely is. Also, every mental illness was "rare" until more was learned about the illnesses and we were able to diagnose people more efficiently and effectively. Hence the rise in ASD, ADD, ADHD, MDD, GAD, DID, BPD, et cetra. We know more about the illness, we are able to recognize it better and quicker, and treat patients more effectively. Check the DSM before you make accusations like "DID isn't accepted as a legitimate in the psychiatric and psychological world...". That is false.
Madison Williams Let me reiterate: The DID exists as a diagnosis in the world of psychology, but in my experience is not a respected diagnosis and by virtue of its lack of criteria and empirical evidence, is a controversial diagnosis at best. That is a fact. I'm aware that it appears in the DSM-V. The majority in the field I have worked with or read consider it a frequent misdiagnosis due to poor methodology with therapy, or in some unfortunate cases intentional malingering or Iatrogenesis. The symptoms once associated with DID, when they do appear in a patient, are typically found to be the result of other disorders or a combination of multiple, and in some cases MSpB, which many conaider to be the case with Sybil's diagnosis (that or her case being a rather specific facet of her unique neurological composition, which Schreiber, an author and journalist, was not qualified to diagnose). Keep in mind that Sybil was said to have sixteen distinct personalities, while most previous and subsequent cases typically report two or three. Disassociation and depersonalization are poorly understood, and disassociative fugue is still being researched thoroughly , but there is still very little criteria or consensus on the matter, and the subject of multiple personalities often comes down, again, to an awareness of the disorder on the patient or professional's part. I remind you that it's quite evident that, despite the DSM being standard around the modern world, specialists most frequently diagnose patients with DID in countries where patients would have likely seen Sybil or media inspired by it. Also, yes, many diagnoses were rare or controversial before they were well understood. But we also once had drapetomania and hysteria, for example, which have since been disproven.
The actress who played the mother..her name is Martine Bartlett worked on stage with Paul Newman in Tennesse Williams Sweet Bird of Youth..was Miss Metcalf, the teacher in Splendor in The Grass.
She was the one who called on Natalie Wood to read the poem about 'splendor in the grass'. That is one woman who was MADE to wear an iron grey bun.
It Should Be Noted What A Wonderful Actress Sally Fields Is. Year After This Was On T. V. It still Tears Me Apart!
this scene terrified me as a 14 year old child, 30 years later, ive never been able to erase it from my memory.
I saw it and cried. Her mommy was very cruel and her daddy didn't do anything about it.
I first saw the entire movie when I was 7 ... guess how that made me feel and affected me.
Soviet II That is too little.
It terrified me as well when I saw it. Really terrible woman.
Jack Wyatt I was 12 and scared me too
This was very, very, very important movie to be made. Look up the section where they were trying to find what actress would play. Sally researched the whole script before trying out. Back then neighbors minded their own . This brought to light mental illness. This doctor was great to have recorded everything and write the book. Real life is scarier than fiction movies.
Many mistake the piano scene of her holding her urine and wetting herself. It was actually the water from the ice water enema she was made to hold in her bowels.
Urine retention has however been used as a form of punishment for children. I knew a guy years ago that had this punishment as a kid. He would have to hold it all day and if he wet himself he would get spanked and have to repeat it the next day.
That's fucked up!
That's in Jackie Chan's autobiography--the students at the school couldn't go to the bathroom for quite some time after waking up in the morning.
It was anemia . Wouldn’t that be water in the intestines?
I think you're incorrect. The mother tells her to hold her water, not bowels
This is why I will never do an enema. I always PTSD back to this movie when I hear the word.
One of the most terrifying things ever filmed in movie history... is Sybil.
Her mother was a sick and evil sadist! That’s traumatizing
Her mom had Paranoid Schizophrenia
Where were the authorities, how come nobody knew?
the mother also filled her bladder wish water
Yes, she filled her bladder at times. And frequent enemas, and being made to 'hold it' while the vibrations from the piano being pounded caused agony. The worst and most invasive abuse was depicted in the movie, which surprised me as it was made in '77. But it was necessary to show trauma that could possibly cause a 'self' to fragment.
The first time I saw this i was shocked
What a sicko
THROW MAMA INTO A TREE CHIPPER .... HOW TERRIBLE FOR THIS POOR WOMAN ...
Sybil's mother is sadistic!
3:15 Why did they have to ruin Dvorak’s Allegro Con Fuoco for me? Sounds like it ruined for Sybil too.
omg this is so disturbing!!
I remember seeing this like 20 years ago and it completely horrified me
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This is so upsetting to watch. The mother practically molested her by putting water up her parts. That is major trauma for a child. Now days that would be jail time. Poor Sybil!
According to the book it would be revealed that her mother did much worse. Her mother was an untreated schizophrenic that believed that there was nothing wrong with her
@@starlightperkins330Yes, and Hattie’s husband was worse than that. He didn’t believe that Hattie was ever sick, their church preached against psychiatrists. So, of course Willard never got Hattie any help. Willard truly didn’t know Sybil was being sexually and physically abused by Hattie. But everyone else around them knew.
Some human beings are far more frightening than the worst snakes and vermin there is. Most are wonderful-but it's this kind of crazy #%^* that is upsetting. Name a species on Earth that tortures there own offspring??
Oh yes.... That is what humans do, we are the most hideous and disgusting thing . I really think we should not exist. We only abuse, violate, denigrate and destroy, other people, animals, nature .. etc. Humans are the worst and we are far too many
god... thats so sad...
ive had to put up with abuse from my father... beatings. but this is just awful.
What song was the mom playing on the piano?
+LaurenHammes Dvorak's New World Symphony.
Dvorak’s New World Symphony 4th Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco.
One of my favorite “Classical” pieces of all time.
Krystal Harwood it is te 4th movement of the New world Symphony by Dvorak
What is the name of the movie
Sybil
Sybil.
Sybil
Sybil
What was the knife for?
I'm sorry but. This is the truth it is the truth this movie is based off the truth. I am not being sarcastic
The knife "it was a shoe hook" was for holding her vagina open so she could pour the scalding hot enema down her vagina (not even susposed to do that) she would play the piano for like 3 mins (imagine peeing for 1 second and having to hold it for 3 minutes.) and if she peed she would get hit. and most likely do it again. They would do that multiple times a day after every meal if she wasn't using the bathroom correctly or every 30 minutes.
Slenderman Sybil was placed up against the piano to also receive the VIBRATIONS and humming from the piano making her wish to release her bowels even sooner. Her mother was a monster
Slenderman The mother used the buttonhook to scrape at the innerwall of her uterus and vagina, and then she would pour the enema in with the disinfectant till it was completely overflowing and then she took her in the other room, tied her to the piano and forced her to hold all of the water in, sometimes until she passed out, like in this scene, and if she didn't hold it in, then her mom would just take her back into the kitchen and do it all over again until she could hold it. Oh, & by the way, that wasn't her peeing on the floor towards the end. It was just the water because she passed out and couldn't hold the water in any longer. Not trying to be sarcastic or snotty or anything. It's incredibly screwed up and brought me to tears when I watched it in my psych class.
+Kay Rose Jesus fuck.
+LegionFox Right. We watched it in my Psychology class my senior year because we were studying personality disorders and schizophrenia.
her mother is creepy
And kids think it is rough nowadays
this is one person's experience. Everyone is differemt and you don't know everyone's story
Kids nowadays are not raped by adults or locked up or beaten? Since when?
It's been found it was all planted in the women's head by the Dr so all lies
what's the name of that piano song
part of the new world symphony by dvorak
@@krystalharwood5240 lmao wtf I forgot about this video and this comment
Dvorak’s New World Symphony 4th Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco.
One of my favorite “Classical” pieces of all time.
Krystal - toxins absorbed from the intestine affect behavior/mental health. Treating constipation or slow colon/rectum transit times (the two are synonymous) is bound to overlap with punishment.
My foster mother used to torture me. She was an evil person.
Im so sorry!
I'm watching this in health although we haven't got to this part yet but i was curious to see what happened in the green kitchen
I know a lady at church who looks like this mother/actress and is mean too.
I'm speechless
"Spanking kids is so abusive! "
Umm.. no. This folks is abuse. A spank of the butt or hand to teach a lesson of no. Understandable. This is abuse. Hurting a child for no reason or giving a punishment worse than just a lesson is abuse. Don't be abusive
Um, do you know the difference between abuse and torture? They are not comparable. Nor can you compare spanking to discipline. They are not one of the same. If you knew how to discipline you wouldn't have to resort to spanking. Much like if a dog knew how to communicate it would never have to resort to biting. I've raised 5 wonderful well educated and proud children without ever having to hurt them to make them understand the exact nature of what they are doing wrong. Resorting to a violent act to make a point is simply lazy parenting. I'm not a bible thumper by any stretch of the imagination but if you believe that sort of thing then read Matthew 5:37. I'm not really into that sort of thing but I'm trying to reach you by speaking the language.
Lisa Meier If we bring biblical into this, don't forget Proverbs 13:24
I was hoping someone would say that! Let's think a moment. "The rod" what is it used for? In the biblical days a rod was used to GUIDE sheep. Not beat to beat them but to block them from going off course. it was hold straight out with a firm hand and kept the flock (not just one but the flock) from veering off course and entering unsafe territory. When the sheep would wander into the rod while being herded it would pull back into line. If you hit a sheep with a rod on the ass, it would run faster and harder in the direction it had been going and enter dangerous territory. If you spare the rod, you are then slacking as a shepard and not to have much in the way of a flock. They'll be eaten right up, stolen, follow other herds ect.
Lisa Meier Continuous wandering sheep usually ended up with broken legs so says my pastor. They gave pain for the good of the sheep.
So your pastor misinterpreted the bible or...? What's your point? If something THAT big was left out of the bible then I guess you'd have to say your God hasn't got enough control over things to make sure it was left IN the bible. Otherwise I'm going to believe that when he said sheep were guided away from the mouths of wolves... that's probably what he meant. It was pretty important to keep your sheep together at night because the wolves hid in wooded dark areas and attacked by night. Strange to think a good shepard would break the legs of the sheep he was watching out for considering , to do so would put them, as well as the others in danger. Kind of a dumb theory. If he breaks their legs, the wolves will eat them and wasting food back then was a pretty big "no no" , If you had to carry your broken legged sheep, you would be less able to care for your flock. If you leave it for the wolves to eat they will react like they are at a lunch buffet. So, in essense if you beat on your children you are putting them as well as your other children deeper into harms way. Take a moment and use the brain your God gave you for a nano second to think for yourself. Your pastor isn't reading you a bedtime story. I suppose he could tell you just about anything and you'd believe it. Read and think for yourself. Take some time out to imagine what things were like back then and try to imagine what is being said. You spent a long enough time reading my comments. I would imagine you have the same time to read from the book you are claiming drives your life.
reminds me more of Ruthie. Peggy was more tough
3:18 music please
Dvorak’s New World Symphony 4th Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco.
One of my favorite “Classical” pieces of all time.
Sally Field!!!!!
WTF DID I JUST WATCH?!?!?!?!?!!!
Her mother was mentally ill, not "a weirdo"
believe me! I had one once for constipation
oh yea.. I'd rather have enemas then soap sticks.. those fuckers BURN.
@@grettagrids So do those so called pelvic exams these sick ass Gynos give. I had two of them in my life. The first one was when I was eighteen. I was taken by my mother who out and out lied to me telling me" No it doesn't hurt!" BULLSHIT! And the last time and l mean the last time was 2010 and done by a woman that time and this bitch was rough and it STILL hurt like someone sticking a flaming hot poker up in me and I bled. I am not married and have never had sex either. My father took me to that exam. I'd rather have someone stick me with needles to take blood out of my arm every six months than to have to endure that fifteen minutes of Hell on earth again.
@Peppermint Snowdrift no recently but I think they overused them back when. punishment enemas? i'd rather have a good whack on the bottom
@@sheriheffner2098 that's just it. if u are a virgin it would be more uncomfortable. plus if u never used tampons.
@@krystalharwood5240 No I never used them. I am finished with periods.
Sybil
Alter creation, this is what Disney did to miley, chistina, britney etc.
Galaxy's Recorded that’s more of a alter ego not this DID is created from childhood trauma before a certain age
who comes up with this it is one he'll of a movie plot.
I don't know if you are trolling, but this ain't a plot, this movie is based on a real clinic case, the person with the most extreme dissociative identity disorder was called Sybil and this movie it's all her real life story... sadly.
jacobygreenwood DID isn't accepted as a legitimate disorder in the psychiatric and psychological world, and is typically only "seen" in patients who later confess to lying about their alternate personalities due to attention-seeking behavior associated with various real disorders, such as Histrionic and Borderline. There was a period from the fifties into the early eighties where the term was still being applied with trepidation to Schizophrenic patients, hence the occasional overlap of the terms in modern colloquium. The diagnoses in the US were two a year before this came out, and over a thousand a year after. Also, there have been remarkably few reported cases of this outside of the English-speaking world, where Sybil is most popular. The original book itself has been sharply criticized by the entire psychological and medical community, and the majority of analysts, specialists and critics agree the was fabricated by the doctor manipulating the alleged patient, who was likely mentally unstable and vulnerable to suggestion.
All that aside, the movie is a.classic. It's an amazing, truly chilling performace.
John G Actually, DID is accepted in the psychological world. I don't know where you got the idea that it is not, but it definitely is. Also, every mental illness was "rare" until more was learned about the illnesses and we were able to diagnose people more efficiently and effectively. Hence the rise in ASD, ADD, ADHD, MDD, GAD, DID, BPD, et cetra. We know more about the illness, we are able to recognize it better and quicker, and treat patients more effectively. Check the DSM before you make accusations like "DID isn't accepted as a legitimate in the psychiatric and psychological world...". That is false.
Madison Williams Let me reiterate: The DID exists as a diagnosis in the world of psychology, but in my experience is not a respected diagnosis and by virtue of its lack of criteria and empirical evidence, is a controversial diagnosis at best. That is a fact.
I'm aware that it appears in the DSM-V. The majority in the field I have worked with or read consider it a frequent misdiagnosis due to poor methodology with therapy, or in some unfortunate cases intentional malingering or Iatrogenesis. The symptoms once associated with DID, when they do appear in a patient, are typically found to be the result of other disorders or a combination of multiple, and in some cases MSpB, which many conaider to be the case with Sybil's diagnosis (that or her case being a rather specific facet of her unique neurological composition, which Schreiber, an author and journalist, was not qualified to diagnose). Keep in mind that Sybil was said to have sixteen distinct personalities, while most previous and subsequent cases typically report two or three. Disassociation and depersonalization are poorly understood, and disassociative fugue is still being researched thoroughly , but there is still very little criteria or consensus on the matter, and the subject of multiple personalities often comes down, again, to an awareness of the disorder on the patient or professional's part. I remind you that it's quite evident that, despite the DSM being standard around the modern world, specialists most frequently diagnose patients with DID in countries where patients would have likely seen Sybil or media inspired by it.
Also, yes, many diagnoses were rare or controversial before they were well understood. But we also once had drapetomania and hysteria, for example, which have since been disproven.
Peppermint Snowdrift but how do you know for sure??
She was jamming pretty hard on that piano.
But what song is it?
@@jaysherman4149 Dvorak’s New World Symphony 4th Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco.
One of my favorite “Classical” pieces of all time.
People people thus whole movie was all made up !! They just wanted money and recognition. What a horrifying disgrace ! SHAME ON EVERYONE INVOLVED .
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I had similar.
I'm so sorry.🤲❤️
Oh qué horror
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
hilda hernandez
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best part of the movie
Omg
Its almost hilarious how trashy this movie is now decades later with even a slightly better understanding of DID
Bwahahaa
And it was alllllllllll FAKED !!!!