Wilber plays an important role in bringing together the sixteen personalities, allowing Sybil to control her body without prolonged blackouts. Dr. Wilber helps Sybil deal with her childhood trauma. Dr. Wilber speaks to Sybil through other selves as these selves acted as guardians of the horrific abuse, taking parts of Sybil's life and storing these memories. Dr. Wilber was able to identify Sybil's primary alters who held these memories through hypnosis (Schreiber, 1995). “The abuse victim may only be able to organize a psychological escape. Ross, following Hilgard, argues that there appear to be two ways for the self to escape memories of abuse: repression or dissociation. It refers to horizontal division as a way of dividing consciousness by pushing painful memories below the level of consciousness. The other strategy is to divide consciousness by creating vertical divisions between segments separated by amnestic barriers” (Foui, Unit 9, 2014 p..