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1918年4月24日～
1988年11月3日)
施赖勃是美国《科学文摘》的精神病学编辑，写过几篇精神病学论文。1962年秋天的一个夜晚，她应约与一位名叫科妮利亚·B.威尔伯（Cornelia B. Wilbur，1908～1992）的心理分析女医生会面。会面时，施赖勃初次见到后来她基于保护隐私的原因，称之为“西碧尔”的女人——雪莉·梅森（Shirley Ardell Mason，1923～1998)，一个哥伦比亚大学的研究生。
Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988), an American journalist, was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who suffered from dissociative identity disorder. Ms. Schreiber was an English instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her earlier book was Your Child's Speech. Her last book The Shoemaker was the true story of a mass murderer who suffered from schizophrenia.