The Center Cannot Hold : My Journey Through Madness (Paperback)

from hnbrown

A wonderfully non-melodramatic account of living with schizophrenia. There are few accounts of living with psychosis, in part because those who are afflicted with it don't have the means to report back from that terrible land. Saks' keen intelligence, insights, and narrative gifts make this a mov...

from pamdierickx

Amazing autobiography of a highly intelligent,woman who suceeded as an academic at University of Southern California school of law. She attained the highest honors of the school and attended many other universities and graduated. She became a wife, successful friend, married, all with a diagnisos...

from annith

Elyn Saks is a distinguished law professor at USC, where she holds an endowed chair; she is a published author who has studied psychoanalysis; she is someone with a husband and many dear friends; and she is a schizophrenic. "The Center Cannot Hold," her 2007 autobiography, traces her fall into ma...

from kageeh

An amazing woman has written an eye-opening book! No review is going to do justice to this incredible book by Elyn Saks, an academic dean, tenured law school and medical school professor, psychoanalysis student, and, not incidentally, a raving (at times of stress or change) schizophrenic. For rea...

from goofgirl93004

The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks is a riveting tale of schizophrenia that is at once nightmarish and inspiring. Alternating between lucidity and delusions, Saks struggles against her illness to complete her education and become a working member of society. Her description of the halucinations,...