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A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder
by Robert B. Oxnam (Narrator: William Dufris)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. (2005-10-15)
ISBN: 1593160704
EAN: 9781593160708
Dewy Decimal #: 616.852360092
Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Release Date: 2005-10-15
SKU: 0066577
Condition: New
Comments: Brand New, still in original shrinkwrap. 8 CDs, ten hours.
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Product Description
In 1989, Robert B. Oxnam, the successful China scholar and president of the Asia Society, faced up to what he thought was his biggest personal challenge: alcoholism. But this dependency masked a problem far more serious: Multiple Personality Disorder. At the peak of his professional career, after having led the Asia Society for nearly a decade, Oxnam was haunted by periodic blackouts and episodic rages. After his family and friends intervened, Oxnam received help from a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffery Smith, and entered a rehab center. It wasnt until 1990 during a session with Dr. Smith that the first of Oxnam's eleven alternate personalities an angry young boy named Tommy suddenly emerged. With Dr. Smith's help, Oxnam began the exhausting and fascinating process of uncovering his many personalities and the childhood trauma that caused his condition. This is the powerful and moving story of one person's struggle with this terrifying illness. The book includes an epilogue by Dr. Smith in which he describes Roberts case, the treatment, and the nature of multiple personality disorder. Robert's courage in facing his situation and overcoming his painful past makes for a dramatic and inspiring book.
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