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'Sybil' doctor says case benefited psychiatry By ZENIA CLEIGH

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Founders' Gallery: Retrospective exhibit of paintings and drawings by Herman Gralfe. through March 13 University of San Diego. Mon -Fri., 10-4. 291-6480.

made the New York Times best-seller list for 26 weeks. NBC earned almost $4 million on the similarly named television show, it is rumored, and the attendant publici- ty propelled the controversial, unorthodox woman psy- chiatrist to fame. Now 72, in town yesterday to give a speech on ''The Identification and Treatment of Multiple Personalities" at 8 p.m. at USD, Wilbur has been on at least 170 talk shows, counts Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman as good friends, and was once invited to dinner by Natalie Wood, who asked for her autograph. The most important result, however, of Wilbur's decision to popularize the story of Sybil has been the international recognition that followed and the medical eye-opening as psychiatrists from across the country began to share information with her and to correspond. For the last three years, Wilbur has taught courses in the identification and. treatment of multiple personalities for professionals in a series of workshops sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association. At these, she is joined by other psychiatrists Wh? have had success in similar work, men like Ralph A111son of UC Davis, David Caul of Athens Mental Health Center in Ohio, Francis Saculla of Tripler Hospital mHonolulu and Phillip Coons of the University of Indiana College of Medicine. The multiple personality, usually a talented !)crson with an IQ over 140 who was abused as a child, is not a See WILBUR, E-2

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While the red-haired New York psychiatrrist waited patiently like a kindly fox, a sudden change came over Sybil I Dorsett, the prim midwestern schoolteacher. Abruptly, 'he jumped out of her chair, astonished and teITified, and fX>gan pounding on the window. "Let me see your hand," demanded Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur. "Why do you want to look at my hand?" asked Sybil. "I want to see if you're hurt." "You mean I'm more important than the window?" "of course." Wilbur pondered the small creature huddled by the window wbose voice, diction and bearing had suddenly utter!; changed. "Who a e you?" she asked. Tnen, m a comment which was to mark the beginning of a n.1 11 revolution in American psychiatry, came the startling r ply ··rm Peggy. " Thus ~an Or. Wilbur's dramatic, successful and groundbreaking 11-year psychoanalysis of the hysterical woman with 16 multiple personalities, who, with her disguised name, became in the '70s-almost a household word. Sybil.: The book by that name sold 200,000 hardback copies, almost six million in paperback, and when it first appeared in 1973, authored by Flora Rheta Schreiber, it

LOS ANGELES TIMES MAR 8 1980 ...

Court Appearance: Aspiring attorneys from the western r.s. are convening on USD this weekend for a basketball >Urnament matching Jaw school with law school. The powers are not quite the same as they are in the :CAA. USD won a year ago, beating Cal Western in the nals. UCLA was third. They will go at it all day today at USD and then play the nals at the Sports Arena Sunday at 4p.m. in a prelim.ina- 1 to the Clipper-Golden State game. Crowds would not ~ure to be large, but these guys must only prepare to irfonn before 12 people.

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"The Beethoven Cycle": Piano concert featuring Beethoven's Op . 31 #, Op. 110, Op. 14 #1, and Op. 13 (Panthetique), 4 p.m . Sunday, Camino Theater, University of San Diego, Alcala Park. Admission: $3.50; students, senior citizens and military, $1.50. Information: 291-6480.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES MAR 1 4 1980 CHORAL PROGRAM (Immaculata Church, University of San Diego): 'l'.he school's vocal ensemble presents a spnng concert. Tonight at 8 p.m. BEETHOVEN CYCLE (Camino Theatre, University of San Diego), Faculty members of the school's fine arts department per- form Beethoven selections. Sunday at 4 p.m.

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"Mazarin - The King is Dead - Long Live the Cardinal," a French historical film produced for French television, will be presented with English subtitles by Alliance Fran· caise, Saturday, March 15, 2 p.m., De Sales Hall, USO, Alcala Park. 578-1609.

~EETHOVEN CYCLE - The University of San Diego will continue 1 5 s series of concerts celebrating the German composer next unday at 4 p.m in Camino Theater, USO. CHORAL CONCERT - The University of S D :;~gpram andthSplmring Concert will present a voca~:ns~~~e ~i~~ayl m. '" e maculata Church, USD.

"THE BEETHOVEN CYCLE' Piano concert featuring Bee- thoven's Op. 31, No. 3 , Op. 110, Op. 14, No. 1, and Op. 13 (Panthetique), 4 p.rn. Sunday, March 16 at the Camino The- ater; University of San Diego, Alcala Park.

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Robert Simone One night stand 3 )1;;2-((? BY ROBERT Sll.o'JE T he theatrical highlight of a month crammed with openings has been the Los Angeles based Provi- sional Theatre Company's production of Inching Through the Everglades, which played one sparsely attended performance at USD's Camino Hall last week. This company of"cultural workers" has been in exist- ence for six years (although some of them broke with another group to form the Provisional), and their con- tinued existence seems in constant jeopardy (the National Endowment for the Arts cut back its grant two years in a row because of failure on the part of the Pro- visional to "fullfill its artistic promise," which seems odd considering the critical and community support the group has garnered across the country.) The great strength of fncf)irrg Through the Everglades, which the company created and first performed last August, is in l its presentation of two highly original and individualistic characters, so-called ordinary people who take turns addressing the audience while the remainder of the company, using mime, masks, various musical instru- ments and singing original songs, help create a stream- of-consciousness atmosphere for the telling of Irene and Willie Rae's stories. Candace Laughlin is very funny and very touching as Irene, a simple-minded but very together super- market checker. She tells us about her relationship with her Indian lover Billy, about whom she fears after he leaves that "He respected me for not letting him push me around, but he really needed someone to push around," only to receive a letter six months later telling her that he's gone back to the reservation because the Indians are preparing fo"r war with feaeral officials. (Laughlin also plays Btlly to great comic and poignant effect one scene in which Billy, drunk and paranoid, rails around the apartment denying his name is Billy, is chilling.) We are also told of her Communist girl- friend Emma and her misadventures on the job and

fantasies about killing her boss. Michael Dawdy plays Willy Rae, a roofer who doesn't tell us about his ex- periences in Vietnam because he knows we're not interested, but who does tell us, with a fatalistic smirk, how he chose random places across the country to live in, casting his fate to the extension of a compass-like instrument across a map of the United States, and how he's gradually coming to the realization that "the whole thing stinks." These two characters never meet, but take turns addressing the audience; the specificity of their obser- vations and the underlying compassion and belief in the importance of these people's lives, give this produc- tion a depth and dignity present in the finest art. Another recent one-night stand was provided by El Teatro Campesino, The Farmworkers' Theatre, who presented Mundo by Luis Valdez (he's also the author of Zoot Suit). Mundo is described as a "twentieth; century Chicano mystery/miracle play." Valdez re- frains, except in occasional broadly satiric terms, from making overt political statements, telling instead a bi- lingual fable of a Chicano everyman named Mundo who overdoses on heroin and nearly dies. He takes a trip to a land of death, which is similar to our own world in many respects. Death is loved and worshipped in various forms. The dead eat dirt "from our own garden" and enthusiastically celebrate the prospect of World War Ill, for, "We always win." They even pray to Jesus Christ for salvation. There are characters named Little Death and Big Death (a Jim Jones figure). Mundo meets his grandparents, who live in a hole in the ground, and his old running partner, a gangleader who was killled ten years ago with e bullet through his head and who doesn't let a weeJ.. go by without manipulating someone into shootin!l h{m again (it keeps his mind clear). Both the gangleader and the grandmother are played with startling vividness by an actress named Socorro Valdez, and Mundo is played with total authenticity by Marco S Rodriguez. The staging, also by Mr. Valdez, is broad and vigorous. I had some difficulty understanding the cosmology presented, though . Some of the characters in the land of death seem capable of dying again, and others not, and Mundo's wife 's appearance and death in the underworld is never ex plained once he gets horT)e and finds her unhar'l"ed. The philosophy presented is 1,Jrim stuff - life 1s a prison and death 1s no better. Thfl writing is. bro.id and well, ordinary. There is one pass ge near tt\e end hat sings, as Mundo 1s "sentenced to life," and one wi&hes the r~t of the writing were as good . Mention must also be made of the accomplished musicians who provide musical accompaniment tn Spanish; they contribute a great deal.

SAN DIEGO CLIPPING SERVICE EVENING TRIBUNE MAR 1 2 l98IJ Seminar due on unfair bias Progress toward ellmi- natmg unfair bias in em- ployment will be studied Friaay at an all-day prer gram begl.nmng at 9a.m. in the Hilton Inn on Mission Bay. . The program, emphasiz- ing collective bargaining and affirmative action, will offer workshops including case studies on how to com- ply with goals for equal opportunity. Leaders will include Clarence Pendleton of the San Diego Urban League, Lavan Carmen of the feder- al Equal Employment Op- portunity Commission here, labor and management leaders and attorneys. Key- note speaker will be Alice Lytle of the state Consumer Services Agency. University of San Diego Labor-Management Rela- tions Center and the Na tional Conference or Chris- tians and Jews are sponsor- ing the seminar. A$75 reg- istration fee includes lunch. Information is available at the USD continuing educa- tion office.

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