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

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn R. Saks

341 pages first pub 2007 (editions) user-added

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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emotional 83%
informative 78%
reflective 56%
inspiring 43%
challenging 42%
hopeful 40%
dark 32%
sad 22%
tense 11%
funny 5%
adventurous 1%
mysterious 1%

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slow 22%
fast 8%

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