The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
ISBN-13:
9781401309442
ISBN-10:
1401309445
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Elyn R. Saks
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
Women
,
Specific Groups
,
Social Scientists & Psychologists
,
Professionals & Academics
,
West
,
Regional U.S.
,
Schizophrenia
,
Mental Health
,
General
,
Psychology
,
Pathologies
,
Cultural & Regional
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ISBN-13:
9781401309442
ISBN-10:
1401309445
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Elyn R. Saks
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
Women
,
Specific Groups
,
Social Scientists & Psychologists
,
Professionals & Academics
,
West
,
Regional U.S.
,
Schizophrenia
,
Mental Health
,
General
,
Psychology
,
Pathologies
,
Cultural & Regional
Summary
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (ISBN-13: 9781401309442 and ISBN-10: 1401309445), written by authors
Elyn R. Saks, was published by Hachette Books in 2008.
With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other
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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.
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.
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