The Centre Cannot Hold :

A Memoir of My
Schizophrenia
 By
Elyn R. Saks
Little, Brown Book Group
 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. This 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.

Little, Brown Book Group

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