The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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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, when her first symptoms appeared in the form of obsessions and night terrors. But it was not until she reached Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar that her first full-blown episode, complete with voices in her head and terrifying suicidal fantasies, forced her into a psychiatric hospital.

Saks would later attend Yale Law School where one night, during her first term, she had a breakdown that left her singing on the roof of the law school library at midnight. She was taken to the emergency room, force-fed antipsychotic medication, and tied hand-and-foot to the cold metal of a hospital bed. She spent the next five months in a psychiatric ward.

So began Saks's long war with her own internal demons and the equally powerful forces of stigma. Today she is a chaired professor of law who researches and writes about the rights of the mentally ill. She is married to a wonderful man.

In The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn Saks discusses frankly and movingly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, and the voices in her head insisting she do terrible things, as well as the many obstacles she overcame to become the woman she is today. It is destined to become a classic in the genre.

Country	USA
Author	Elyn R. Saks
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Brand: Hyperion
EAN	9781401301385
Edition	1
ISBN	140130138X
Label	Hachette Books
Manufacturer	Hachette Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2007-08-14
Publisher	Hachette Books
ReleaseDate	2007-08-14
Studio	Hachette Books

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

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