The Centre Cannot Hold

Name: The Centre Cannot Hold
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SKU: 9781844081677
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A Memoir of My Schizophrenia

By Elyn R. Saks

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The Centre Cannot Hold is a powerful and moving memoir by Elyn R. Saks, a distinguished Professor of Law and Psychiatry living with schizophrenia. Saks offers a rare, articulate, and self-aware insight into her condition, revealing the challenges of delusions, hallucinations, and the stigma she faces. With a clear and measured tone, she shares her journey of living with schizophrenia, balancing her academic career, marriage, and personal struggles.
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This book is especially suited for readers interested in mental health, biographies of resilience, and understanding schizophrenia from a deeply personal yet scholarly perspective.

Highly articulate and self-aware, Elyn Saks offers a moving insight into the world of a schizophrenic. This compelling account will bring hope to sufferers and understanding to all.

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Highly articulate and self-aware, Elyn Saks offers a moving insight into the world of a schizophrenic. This compelling account will bring hope to sufferers and understanding to all.

Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's the author of several books. Happily married. And - a schizophrenic. Saks lifts the veil on schizophrenia with her startling and honest account of how she learned to live with this debilitating disease.

With a coolly clear, measured tone she talks about her condition, the stigma attached, and the deadening effects of medication. Her controlled narrative is disrupted by interjections from the part of her mind she has learned to suppress. Delusions, hallucinations, and threatening voices cut into her reality and Saks, in a remarkably vivid way, enables us to hear and see them too.

The Centre Cannot Hold is a powerful book that is as informative as it is moving. There are parallels with Jane Lapotaire's Time Out of Mind and with Girl, Interrupted.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844081677

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 September 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Elyn Saks is a professor at the University of Southern California Law School and the University of California, and Research Clinical Associate at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She studied at Oxford and at Yale Law School and has published three books.

Author Location: California, USA