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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Read this book
  If you want some insight into the struggle that a successful individual engages in when her brain goes haywire, read this book. This is a book about courage and endurance. It is also a book that asks for another book from the author, perhaps not as interesting, about the world that surrounds the author - doctors, pharma companies, parents, hospitals, researchers, etc. and the relationships between them. Of course, this is a huge subject, greater than what one writer can tackle, but I hope that Elyn will... more info

• Her story of battling schizoaffective disorder is also a revealing history of recent trends in the treatment of mental illness
  A brave memoir that contributes generously to our understanding of what it's like to live with hallucinations and delusions even while being academically gifted. Her journey through her illness was also a journey through the mental health treatment community and the changes in treatment protocols over the course of her life. In her case, talk therapy, especailly psychoanalysis during her difficult postgraduate years in England, helped her keep grounded in reality and fend off the intrusions of her... more info

• Coming out of the Closet
  Ms Saks has written a very important book that demonstrates that people with schizophrenia can achieve a great deal in life with proper treatment and support. The problem is that she and others like her are in a minority. In her address to the American Psychological Association in 2007, she told the story of how a colleague at the University of Southern California had said that they would not have gone to dinner with her had they known she was schizophrenic.
  This is an attitude that is all too common... more info

• Caution!
  First of all, she seems like a remarkably brilliant, hardworking and resilient person with not only personal accomplishments, but also with significant contributions to the legal and mental health fields. It is great to hear success stories of people with severe difficulties. Having said that, I think that memoirs of this kind needs to be read with caution as it present subjective, anecdotal, case examples of an individual, in this case a person with exceptional abilities and resources that are desirable,... more info

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