Marion Deane – Book Review – The Centre Cannot Hold – A Memoir of My Schizophrenia – E. R. Saks
 
Issue 47 (Summer 2011)
 
Elyn Saks lives with her husband in California, where, after a brilliant academic career in some of the world‘s most acclaimed  universities on both sides of the Atlantic—Vanderbilt, Oxford and Yale— she is now a professor of law specialising in mental health. She works also as a research scholar in psychoanalysis. In the final chapter of her memoir The Centre Cannot Hold she expresses her gratitude to the many people and events that have assisted her to have a 'life worth living‘ despite decades of suffering from schizophrenia…