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Fundraising For Cat Rescue => Purrs Fundraising -Previous Events => Purrs Fundraising, Purrs' Registered Cat Rescues => Purrs Christmas Auction 2009 for Sunny Harbour => Topic started by: Tan on November 22, 2009, 19:53:39 PM
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.........Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
by Dr Richard Baer (Author), Lloyd James (Narrator)
About Switching Time
One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Dr Richard Baer’s office complaining of vague physical pains and depression. Odder still, she reveals that she’s suffering from a persistent memory problem. Routinely, she “loses” parts of her day, finding herself in places she doesn’t remember going to or being told about conversations she doesn’t remember having. Her problems are so pervasive that she often feels like an impersonator in her own life; she doesn’t recognize the people who call themselves her friends, and she can’t even remember being intimate with her own husband.
Dr Baer recognizes that Karen is on the verge of suicide and, while using various medications to keep her alive, tries to discover the root cause of her strange complaints. It’s the work of months, and then years, to gain Karen’s trust and learn the true extent of the trauma buried in her past. What she eventually reveals is nearly beyond belief, a narrative of a childhood spent grappling with unimaginable horror. How has Karen survived with even a tenuous grasp on sanity?
Then Baer receives an envelope in the mail. It’s marked with Karen’s return address but contains a letter from a little girl who writes that she’s seven years old and lives inside of Karen. Soon Baer receives letters from others claiming to be parts of Karen.
Realizing that his patient represents an extreme case of multiple personality disorder, Baer faces the daunting task of creating a therapy that will make Karen whole again. Somehow, in fact, he must gain the trust of each of Karen’s seventeen “alters” and convince them of the necessity of their own annihilation.
As powerful as Sibyl or The Three Faces of Eve, Switching Time is the first complete account of such therapy to be told from the perspective of the treating physician, a stunningly devoted healer who worked selflessly for decades so that Karen could one day live as a single human being.
50 5 and 4 star reviews on Amazon - also read a few pages here - http://www.amazon.com/Switching-Time-Harrowing-Treating-Personalities/dp/0307382664 (http://www.amazon.com/Switching-Time-Harrowing-Treating-Personalities/dp/0307382664)
Hard Back Book
Very good condition
Hard to put down!!
No startin Bid
Postage - 1.62
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:auction 2: Christine £1.01
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brummmmmmmmmmp
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bumpy
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I have taken the liberty of changing the thread title simply because I'm sure people would be interested in this book if they knew what it was about :shy:
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Thanks Chris ;D
It's a very good book anyone who has seen the film Sybil and liked it will like this book. I find how the mind works so amazing and what it does to protect it's self.
You can read the first few pages here - http://www.amazon.com/Switching-Time-Harrowing-Treating-Personalities/dp/0307382664#reader_0307382664
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£1.20 :)
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nicter £1.20
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bumpy
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This is fascinating stuff - and more common than people generally realise. Anyway...
£1.21
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£1.24
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janeyk - £1.24
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£1.30 :Crazy:
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nicter - £1.30
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:xmas 8: :auction 2:
nictor £1.30
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:win bid:
:congrats: nictor . You’re the winner with a final bid of £2.92 including P & P.
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For the auctioneer
Thanks for auctioning the item and for covering the postage cost so more funds go to Sunny Harbour. :hug: :thanks:
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Have paid £3.00 by paypal tonight :)
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Money received :thanks: item can be sent ;D
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Packed - posting out tomoorw 1st class so in time for xmas :)
Sorry for delay :hug: :hug:
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Thanks Tan x :hug:
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It be gone 1st class :hug: :hug:
Sorry for extra day delay :slap:
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Received . and thank you so much for the choccy puddies. Much appreciated. Happy Xmas xx
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Great ;D locked