 The Center Cannot Hold
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Elyn R. Saks
                    
        
            The Center Cannot Hold
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Elyn R. Saks
        
                    
        
                
                            
        
        
        
                    
                ISBN: 9781401309442
            
        
                    
                Publication Date: 2008-08-12
            
        
                
                            
                Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn's life, from the first time that she heard voices speaking to her as a young teenager, to attempted suicides in college, through learning to live on her own as an adult in an often terrifying world.