Elyn R. Saks

Broschiertes Buch

The Center Cannot Hold

My Journey Through Madness

Beschreibung

Saks managed to achieve both professional and personal success in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis. In this memoir, she frankly and movingly discusses the disease, and the treatments that helped her to cope and thrive.

Autor

Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a Mac¬Arthur Foundation Fellowship winner. She graduated from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. She has published three books and more than two dozen articles, and serves on the board of several mental health foundations. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Will Vinet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA
• Seitenzahl: 355
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 141mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781401309442
• ISBN-10: 1401309445
• Artikelnr.: 23305923