Robert B. Oxnam, an eminent China scholar who learned through psychotherapy that his years of erratic behavior could be explained by the torment of having multiple personalities, died on April 18 at his home in Greenport, N.Y., on the North Fork of Long Island.
In the 1ate 1980s, Dr. Oxnam was president of the Asia Society, a television commentator and an accomplished sailor.
In his 2005 book, “A Fractured Mind: My Life With Multiple Personality Disorder,” Dr. Oxnam recalled the session when Tommy first spoke to Dr. Smith.
All that Dr. Oxnam could remember from the 50-minute session, he wrote, was telling the psychiatrist that he didn’t think the therapy was working for him.
But Dr. Smith told him that he had been speaking to Tommy all that time.
Persons:
Robert B, Vishakha Desai, Oxnam, Jeffery Smith, Bobby, Tommy, Smith
Organizations:
Asia Society
Locations:
China, Greenport, Long