A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder - Softcover

Robert B. Oxnam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904132901 ISBN 13: 9781904132905

Publisher: Vision Paperbacks / Satin Publications, 2006

Synopsis

'A Fractured Mind' tells the true story of a middle-aged man who discovers his life is controlled by 12 separate personalities. Ultimately uplifting, Oxnam's book offers a unique insight into the workings of the human mind and what can happen when things go wrong.

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About the Author

Robert B. Oxnam is internationally recognized as an outstanding Asia specialist and dynamic speaker. He often accompanies prominent Americans such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, former President George H. W. Bush, and Barbara Bush as they seek in-depth, firsthand knowledge of China. He was president of the Asia Society for over a decade, which has headquarters in New York, across the U.S., and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He has hosted MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour specials on Asia. He lives in New York with his wife, Vishakha Desai.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* Sybil, of course, and a handful of others have achieved a measure of public recognition as a result of books chronicling their lives with MPD--multiple personality disorder, known in clinical circles as DID, dissociative identity disorder. Unlike the others, Asia specialist and public speaker Oxnam achieved public distinction, to say nothing of an impressive list of professional accomplishments, despite the at-times crippling burden of MPD, manifested by no fewer than 10 additional, distinct personalities, or "alters," of himself. Sometimes he was in charge; sometimes not. He was often relegated to the role of hapless passenger as one or another alter drove all of them down a path of profligate eating and drinking, temper tantrums, or adultery. Oxnam doesn't shirk responsibility, but with a father who tolerated nothing short of scholastic, indeed overall, perfection and a drama-queen mother, it seems inevitable that Oxnam developed some sort of mental instability. But add gross physical and sexual abuse at the hands of trusted family members into the mixture of childhood experiences, and there is little remarkable in the fact that this child's mind broke into the walled divisions within what the adult Oxnam calls the Castle, home to his inner selves. A remarkable life that, for all its successes, took great personal courage to survive and to publicly record. Donna Chavez
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Edition details

• Publisher: Vision Paperbacks / Satin Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904132901
• ISBN 13: 9781904132905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304