The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 65 of 254
Robert Oxnam's eleven alters
The castle and all its inhabitants were contained within the head of one man: Robert B. Oxnam. Oxnam was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), more commonly, but anachronistically, known as Multiple Personality Disorder. In his account of his life with DID, A Fractured Mind, Oxnam tells an incredible tale of how, through therapy, all these different ‘alters’ – as the different personalities are known – first came to light and how they then became at least partially integrated, so that only Bobby, Robert and Wanda remained, functioning in unison.