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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through MadnessA much praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy" (Time). Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her
A much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy" (Time). Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn's life, from the first time that she heard voices speaking to her as a young teenager, to attempted suicides in college, through learning to live on her own as an adult in an often terrifying world. Saks discusses frankly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, the voices in her head telling her to kill herself (and to harm others), as well as the incredibly difficult obstacles she overcame to become a highly respected professional. This beautifully written memoir is destined to become a classic in its genre.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 08/14/2007
ISBN: 9781401301385
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.10w x 1.10d
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Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/14/2007 pg. 39
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2007 pg. 490
Booklist 05/15/2007 pg. 7
Library Journal 06/01/2007 pg. 136
Time 09/17/2007 pg. 85
Time 12/24/2007 pg. 75
New York Review of Books 04/17/2008 pg. 24
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