The Center Cannot Hold
My Journey Through Madness
By Elyn R. Saks
(Hyperion, Hardcover, 9781401301385, 352pp.)
Publication Date: August 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology - Schizophrenia, Women
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Description
Saks managed to achieve both professional and personal success in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis. In this memoir, she frankly and movingly discusses the disease, and the treatments that helped her to cope and thrive.











