The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Saks, Elyn R.
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Saks, Elyn R.

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

A much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype-shattering look at a...
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Author: Elyn R. Saks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Saks, Elyn R.

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

$30.51
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Saks, Elyn R.

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

$30.51
Author: Elyn R. Saks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Elyn R. Saks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781401309442
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a Mac¬Arthur Foundation Fellowship winner. She graduated from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. She has published three books and more than two dozen articles, and serves on the board of several mental health foundations. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Will Vinet.
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