A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder
The harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalitiesRobert Oxnam was a high-profile, successful man: A renowned scholar and president of the Asia Society, he appeared frequently on television and traveled the world as a sought-after expert....
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The harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalitiesRobert Oxnam was a high-profile, successful man: A renowned scholar and president of the Asia Society, he appeared frequently on television and traveled the world as a sought-after expert. But what the millions of people whod seen him didnt know what even those closest to him didnt know was that Oxnam suffered from multiple personality disorder. It was only after an intervention staged by family and friends, in response to frequent blackouts and episodic rages assumed to be alcohol-driven, that he sought treatment with Dr. Jeffery Smith; the first of his eleven personalities emerged in a session in 1990. After years of treatment, he has integrated them into three: Robert, Wanda, and Bobby, who take turns narrating this remarkable, unprecedented chronicle.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781401308681 (1401308686)
Publish date: October 10th 2006
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Academic,
School,
Adult,
Health,
Medical,
Biography Memoir,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
Read this while studying Abnormal Psychology and, regardless of your beliefs re. Dissociative Identity Disorder, the story is, at the very least incredibly interesting.