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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• 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 readers who assume schizophrenics live out their lives, if we can really call their bare existences lives, shackled literally by physical restraints or zombie-d by antipsychotic drugs, always perched to incite violence against themselves or others, or slinking along... more info

• A Deeply Moving Memoir of Schizophrenia
  Reviewed by Deb Gross
  on 07/13/2008
  Elyn Saks attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, graduated Yale Law School, and is now a chaired professor of law at the University of Southern California. Saks also suffers from schizophrenia. THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD is a deeply moving story of Saks's struggle to live a full life while dealing with the trials of a chronic mental illness.
  Saks employs evocative prose throughout her memoir to bring the reader into her state of mind when the... more info

• The Center Can't Hold
  Schizophrenia will impair the mind to where a person cannot process information clearly. Elyn has pretigous degrees from prominent universities. I think she has done this through her cultural backgound while finding therapists that built a rapport to where she can seperate a world of hallucination and delusion to root into a life of success based on reality. Her memoirs where detailed enough to keep the reader in constant struggle for her sanity. She actully demonstates real auditory halluciantion and how... more info

• "Center " Takes Us Inside the Mind Having Schizophrenia
  "The Center Cannot Hold" by Elyn Saks, is well written by a brilliant woman, herself a mental health comsumer. As a bonus, it is easy to read. I highly recommend it.
  My son has Schizophrenia and this book helped me to understand a lot of what he experiences but cannot or will not express to others. I immediately passed the book on to other parents whose child has this illness, to expend their understanding of what he lives with.
  No, our loved persons with mental illness are not lazy, nor to... more info

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