The Center Cannot Hold
My Journey Through Madness
Ranked #1 in Schizophrenia, Ranked #11 in Psychiatry — see more rankings.
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 otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami, when her first symptoms appeared in the form of obsessions and night terrors. But it was not until she reached Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar that her first full-blown episode, complete... more
Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami, when her first symptoms appeared in the form of obsessions and night terrors. But it was not until she reached Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar that her first full-blown episode, complete... more
Rankings by Category
The Center Cannot Hold is ranked in the following categories:
- #68 in Human Physiology
- #47 in Mental Health
- #51 in Social Work
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