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The Center Cannot Hold - My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
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The Center Cannot Hold - My Journey Through Madness (Hardcover)
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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.
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