Switching Time a Doctors Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman With 17 Personalities Book Review
Publisher Description
"[A]n absorbing journeying through a psychiatrist'south dauntingly challenging kickoff example of multiple personality disorder--from the first of therapy to stable integration and recovery."
-- Colin Ross, author of Multiple Personality Social club and The Osiris Complex
In 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer's office seeking help for her low and a persistent retention trouble: she routinely loses parts of her day, finds herself in places she doesn't call up going to, and is told most conversations she doesn't call back having. While trying to discover the root crusade of her memory loss, Baer works to gain Karen's trust, but it's years before he learns the true extent of the trauma buried in her past. What she eventually reveals is well-nigh beyond belief, a narrative of a childhood spent grappling with unimaginable horror.
So Baer receives an envelope in the mail. It's marked with Karen's return address but contains a letter of the alphabet from a picayune girl who writes that she's 7 years old and lives within of Karen. Soon Baer receives messages from others challenge to be parts of Karen. Nether hypnosis, these alternate Karen personalities reveal themselves in shocking variety. 1 "alter" is a immature male child filled with frightening aggression; some other an developed male who considers himself Karen's protector; a 3rd a sassy flirt who seeks dominance over the others. It's merely by compartmentalizing her pain, guilt, and fear in this style that Karen has been able to role since childhood. Realizing that his patient represents an extreme example of multiple personality disorder, Baer faces the daunting job of creating a therapy that will make Karen whole again.
Equally powerful every bit Sybil or The Three Faces of Eve, Switching Time is the first consummate account of such therapy to be told from the perspective of the treating doc, a stunningly devoted healer who worked selflessly for decades so that Karen could i day live equally a single human being.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Psychotherapist Baer's compelling and engaging memoir traces his journeying through the treatment of a patient'south extraordinary case of multiple personality disorder. When Karen Overhill seeks out Baer's help for her depression, she soon divulges lost hours and past abuse. Baer before long receives a alphabetic character from seven-year-old Claire who "lives inside Karen," and discovers there are more personalities, or "alters," living inside adults, teenagers, children, boys and girls. Realizing that all he knows about multiple personalities he'south gleaned from journals and textbooks rather than clinical experience, Baer uses hypnosis to communicate with the alters, discovering the horrendous corruption that led to the creation of each personality. By nurturing them-especially the children-over several years and with the aid of Holdon and Katherine, the alters who function as parent/guardians to the remainder, Baer guides them to accept integration. Meanwhile, Baer'south union dissolves and budget cuts force him to release all his patients except Karen, for whom he comes to care deeply. In this moving and informative memoir, Baer gives readers fascinating insights not only into a rare disease, merely also the journey of ii individuals adamant to sympathise and overcome all the odds.
GENRE
Health, Mind & Trunk
RELEASED
2007
October 2
Language
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Crown
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
18.8
MB
Client Reviews
Abuse is heavy
I would like to warn that the (sexual) abuse described in this volume is astringent and intense. This is an incredible, psychologically fascinating memoir- just easily perturbed readers may wish to avert the beginning, most graphic portion.
Switching time
A corking book my girlfriend ( at the fourth dimension) and I shared. We both loved it
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