A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder

From: American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Kluft, Richard P | Copyright information

Oxnam, R.B. (2005). A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder. New York: Hyperion. 304 pages.

A Fractured Mind is a remarkable memoir by a remarkable man. Even today, relatively few mental health professionals and educated lay people appreciate that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), usually thought to be among the most flamboyant of mental disorders, is almost always a psychopathology of hiddenness (Gutheil, ci...

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