Selecting items & bounding box

Hello everyone,

It might seem a daft question, but i was wondering if there was another way of displaying selected objects.

At the moment all i can see is a bounding box around the selected objects and nothing else; i was hoping that there would be a way to disable this bounding box and have an outline instead.

When i have a lot of objects selected, i struggle to see what i have actually clicked, especially when there are bigger objects around smaller ones; something like an outline (a little bit like Autocad does) would help a lot.

I have looked everywhere in the options but i cannot see anything; am i missing something obvious?

Thank you very much.