Switching Time: The Seventeen Alters of Karen Overhill

Over the next week we will be exploring the dissociative multiplicity of Karen Overhill in the context of Assagioli’s psychosynthesis. The diagram above shows the ‘splitting’ of consciousness which occurred over a twelve year period and the formation of a pathological personality structure able to cope with the unwavering sadism, sexual abuse, and degradation that unfolded during her formative years.  

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