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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
by Elyn R. Saks
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Elyn Saks was a brilliant student who went on to become a law professor. She was also living with schizophrenia. This memoir moves from her first frightening episodes as a teenager to Oxford, Yale Law School and psychiatric wards. Along the way it covers her long work with psychoanalysts and her doubts about medication. She describes psychosis from the inside, both its terror and its strange logic, and tells her story with clarity and dry humour. The book also asks hard questions about restraint, diagnosis and who gets to decide what a good life looks like. The result is a candid, absorbing account of mental illness and of the relationships that hold a person together.
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