Download Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities AudioBook Free

Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It's the incredible saga of a woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, to be able to survive, created seventeen different versions of herself. In 1989, Karen Overhill walked into the office of psychiatrist Richard Baer complaining of depression. She poured out a litany of complaints, however in the disengaged way of someone who has experienced an awful trauma. Slowly, Baer started out to peel back the layers, eventually learning that Karen have been the victim of childhood sexual abuse. As time passed, though, his patient worsened and started out to talk continually of suicide. Information on her abuse accumulated until he saw, via hypnosis, the real dimension of what Karen had suffered. Baer was at a loss to describe Karen's sanity, precarious though it was, until he received a letter from just a little girl, Claire. One at a time, Karen's "alters" started out showing themselves-men, women, young boys, a toddler, black, white, vicious, nurturing, prim, licentious. And their "stepping out" confronted Baer with the task of a lifetime. Somehow, to save lots of Karen, he would have to get the trust of her alters to be able to destroy them.

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