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A Fractured Mind

Audiobook
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 wasn’t 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. "A Fractured Mind" is the powerful and moving story of one person’s struggle with this terrifying illness. The audiobook includes an...

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Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781593163464
  • File size: 267401 KB
  • Release date: November 4, 2005
  • Duration: 09:17:05

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781593163464
  • File size: 267584 KB
  • Release date: November 4, 2005
  • Duration: 09:17:05
  • Number of parts: 8

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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 wasn’t 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. "A Fractured Mind" is the powerful and moving story of one person’s struggle with this terrifying illness. The audiobook includes an...

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