The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
 

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

by Elyn R. Saks

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life.Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami,... (read more)

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A fascinating look at psychosis from the inside...it's incredible how long she hides the insane things that are going on in her mind from the world.

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