Saturday, January 19, 2008

Switching Time by Richard Baer

This book is written by a psychiatrist about a woman with 17 personalities. I was skeptical when I first started reading the book but by the end, I was sold. What this woman, Karen, is put through as a child and an adult is horrifying in the extreme, so I can see how she would shut herself up to avoid pain. Baer explains it pretty easily for someone like me to understand how it works. Karen spends 18 years in therapy to get throughit all. The book is worth reading if only to learn how to spot someone else going through the same thing she did.

Laurie

1 comments:

Michelle said...

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It's an easy read, like mom says, he speaks so we can understand. It's so amazing that she has survived after everything she is put through. I couldn't put the book down.