Richard Baer

For fourteen years, Dr. Richard Baer did something that had never been documented in clinical literature: he treated and fully integrated a patient with seventeen distinct personalities. Switching Time is the account of that work a real-time clinical and human record of what it actually takes, over real years, to help a person survive what Karen survived. It has been compared by reviewers to Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve, with the distinction that it is told entirely from the treating physician’s perspective, making it the first account of its kind. Dr. Baer brings to this story fourteen years of private psychiatry practice, during which Karen’s case unfolded session by session, personality by personality. He has served as President of the Illinois Psychiatric Society and as Medical Director for Medicare across multiple states.