Summary Of A Broken Mind

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The memoir that I chose was the autobiography of Robert B. Oxnam, A fractured mind: My life with multiple personality disorder. The book is the account of a man with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). DID, once referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is characterized by a person having more than one personality identity. This means that an individual person has separate minds within his/her brain. These different personalities, sometimes also referenced as alters, identities, or multiples, exist together and are thought to be a result of either physical or sexual abuse in early to mid childhood. The validity of the disorder has been criticized, but is recognized by the American Psychiatric Association and is published in the …show more content…

This moment was, for me, the most traumatic part of the book. The feeling that the author gives during this moment conveys the true pain that Baby felt. I think that Robert is unable to feel a genuine emotion about Baby’s painful experiences because he is separated from it by fifty years. I think that the age of the author sets some drawbacks. I think that integration may have been harder for him because the traumatic events are separated by more than half a century. However, by experiencing it this way I think that he can help more people. I think that because he is an accomplished person and writes well, he can give other people with the disorder hope. At the end of the book, the author gives the reader his opinion of DID and the stigmas that are attached to it. He lets the reader know that he is aware the some people are skeptical and that some people think that he, and other people with DID, is making it up. He also lets the reader know that speaking about his disorder helps with his overall therapy. Although he sees a psychiatrist he has also tried meditation. Some of the best treatment he received was from his wife, Dr. Vishakha Desai. She was a person who provided the strongest support besides Dr.

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