{"title":"Psychology--Psychopathology--Schizophrenia","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-center-cannot-hold-my-journey-through-madness","title":"The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as \"a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Center Cannot Hold \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. Saks discusses frankly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, the voices in her head telling her to kill herself (and to harm others), as well as the incredibly difficult obstacles she overcame to become a highly respected professional. This beautifully written memoir is destined to become a classic in its genre.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1401309445\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781401309442\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Saks, Elyn R.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2008)","offer_id":46081362919621,"sku":"9781401309442","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781401309442.jpg?v=1776045204"},{"product_id":"is-there-no-place-on-earth-for-me","title":"Is There No Place on Earth for Me?","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The renowned journalist's classic investigation of schizophrenia that follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The classic case study of schizophrenia that set the stage for reform. . . . Its insight, compassion, and humanity have much to teach us.\" --Andrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sylvia Frumkin\" was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors--even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric center. With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia's plight: her psychotic episodes, the medical struggle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened hospitals that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievement: harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, decades later, \u003ci\u003eIs There No Place on Earth for Me? \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0804169187\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780804169189\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Sheehan, Susan, Coles, Robert\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2014)","offer_id":46100067352773,"sku":"9780804169189","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780804169189.jpg?v=1776647400"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/psychology-psychopathology-schizophrenia.oembed","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}