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The Center Cannot Hold

The Center Cannot Hold

My Journey Through Madness

by Elyn R. Saks

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appears in Schizophrenia, Psychiatry, and Autobiographies.

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?and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life.Saks was only eight, and living an otherwi...

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appears in Schizophrenia, Psychiatry, and Autobiographies.

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The Center Cannot Hold

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