Switching Time
Subtitle: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Crown; Crown Publishers
Published: October 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780307382665
Subjects: Psychiatry; True Stories; Biography And Autobiography; Mental Disorders; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Medical - Physicians; Mental Illness; Psychopathology - General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Medical - General; Mental Health; Biography; Case studies; Multiple personality; Patients
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.