Did Dworkin completely lose her mind prior to its end?

[Major Nikon]

In 2000, Dworkin writes an article for The Guardian about an alleged rape she experienced in 1999.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/jun/02/society

Evidently The Guardian had their doubts about the account once a bit more was learned about it and they wrote a pretty scathing response.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/jun/08/society

Her own husband evidently didn't believe her.

Salon writes a pretty interesting article on the subject. Here's a couple of notable passages:

“I could easily believe she had a black-out, and nasty injuries, from an unexpected dose of alcohol and sunburn,” Bright said. “I would rather have sympathy for that version of events than to believe she is maliciously making the whole thing up.” Bright thinks the truth is probably simpler than that — and sadder: “By the time you finish reading [her story], you know she has finally completely lost her mind.”

Michael Lamport Commons, a researcher with Harvard Medical School’s Program in Psychiatry and Law, also sounds a note of caution: “Lying is a concept of free will,” he told me. People have to know that they are telling untruths in order to be justifiably called liars. He’s not sure that is the case with Dworkin: “While rare, people have dreams of being raped, which appear real to them … Many character disorders, including borderline personality, involve ‘lying’ and not knowing one lies.” Dworkin’s bleak personal history also raises the specter of post-traumatic stress disorder, with its all-too-common dissociative fugues and fragmented flashbacks to earlier scenes of violence.

http://www.salon.com/2000/09/20/dworkin/