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Author Saks, Elyn R., 1955-

Title The center cannot hold : my journey through madness / Elyn R. Saks.

Imprint New York : Hyperion, ©2007.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  362.26 SAKS    DUE 04-01-24
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY SAKS, ELYN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  616.89 SAK    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  616.8982 S    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  616.8982 SAK    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  616.898 SAK    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO SAKS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.8982 SAKS    DUE 04-11-24
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.89 SAKS    DUE 04-20-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.8982 SA31    Check Shelf

Edition 1st ed.
Description 340 pages ; 22 cm
Summary A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage.
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 with voices in her head and terrifying suicidal fantasies, forced her into a psychiatric hospital. Saks would later attend Yale Law School where one night, during her first term, she had a breakdown that left her singing on the roof of the law school library at midnight. She was taken to the emergency room, force-fed antipsychotic medication, and tied hand-and-foot to the cold metal of a hospital bed. She spent the next five months in a psychiatric ward. So began Saks's long war with her own internal demons and the equally powerful forces of stigma. Today she is a chaired professor of law who researches and writes about the rights of the mentally ill. She is married to a wonderful man. In The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn Saks discusses frankly and movingly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, and the voices in her head insisting she do terrible things, as well as the many obstacles she overcame to become the woman she is today.
Subject Saks, Elyn R., 1955-
Gould School of Law -- Faculty -- Biography.
University of California, San Diego. School of Medicine -- Faculty -- Biography.
Saks, Elyn R., 1955- (OCoLC)fst01529355
Saks, Elyn R., 1955-
Gould School of Law -- Faculty -- Biography.
University of California, San Diego. School of Medicine -- Faculty -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- Biography.
Mental illness -- Biography.
Schizophrenia -- Case studies.
Schizophrenics -- California -- Biography.
College teachers -- California -- Biography.
Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
Schizophrenia. (OCoLC)fst01106752
Schizophrenics. (OCoLC)fst01106789
Schizophrenia -- Biography.
Educators -- California -- Biography.
Schizofrenia -- patienter -- biografi.
Schizophrenia -- case reports.
Schizophrenia -- personal narratives.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Added Title My journey through madness
ISBN 9781401301385
140130138X
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