The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

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Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences on the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Can’t Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn’s life, from the primary time that she heard voices speaking to her as a young teenager, to attempted suicides in college, through learning to continue to exist her own as an adult in an ceaselessly terrifying world. Saks discusses frankly the paranoia, the shortcoming to inform imaginary fears from real ones, the voices in her head telling her to kill herself (and to hurt others); as well the incredibly difficult obstacles she overcame to turn into a highly respected professional. This beautifully written memoir is destined to turn into a classic in its genre.

The title is a line from “The Second Coming,” a poem by William Butler Yeats, which is alluded to within the book.

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