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

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn R Saks

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective slow-paced

352 pages | first published 2007

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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” (Time). Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatris...
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