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

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn R. Saks

340 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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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—...

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hopeful 36%
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tense 10%
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mysterious 1%

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