The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
My Journey Through Madness
$42.25
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2008
Summary
A much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as “a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy.”
Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781401309442 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1401309445 |
| Author: | Elyn R. Saks |
| Publisher: | Hyperion |
| Imprint: | Hyperion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 138mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“Elyn Saks has been to hell and back … chilling”– San Francisco Chronicle
“Elyn Saks has been to hell and back … chilling.”–San Francisco Chronicle
“Her descriptions of her descents into psychosis are riveting.”–Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-)
About The Author
Elyn R. Saks
Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a Mac¬Arthur Foundation Fellowship winner. She graduated from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. She has published three books and more than two dozen articles, and serves on the board of several mental health foundations. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Will Vinet.
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