Switching time
Subtitle: a doctor's harrowing story of treating a woman with 17 personalities
By: Richard K. Baer
Edition: 1st pbk ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780307382672
Subjects: Mental health; Multiple personality; Biography; Patients; Case studies
Description: A psychiatrist describes his work with Karen Overhill, a patient complaining of acute depression who turned out to have been a victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and had developed seventeen distinct and separate personalities.
Notes: Originally published: Crown, 2007.
Table of contents: title: False start; title: Roller coaster; title: Losing time; title: Choosing death; title: Father's arrest; title: Mother and father; title: Deepening commitment; title: Childhood horrors; title: Claire's letter; title: Introductions; title: Christmas present; title: Separate links; title: Family tree; title: Story time; title: Church photos; title: Holdon's solution; title: Merging Claire; title: Sandy and Miles; title: Ann and Sidney; title: Thea and Karen Boo; title: Karl; title: Elise and Karen 1; title: Katherine; title: Juliann and Karen 3; title: Karen 2 and Jensen; title: Holden.