The Life of a Schizophrenic - A Life Between Madness and Genius

Elyn R. Saks; She received degrees in philosophy and law from Oxford and Yale Universities, is a licensed psychoanalyst, a mental patients' rights advocate, an academic, a successful woman, and a schizophrenic.

He spent most of his life resisting his illness and at the same time trying to hide it, and in addition to receiving all the psychiatric help he could get, he gave both moral and legal support to those struggling with mental illness like himself. Life of a Schizophrenic is about Saks' difficult journey; The obvious and extraordinary story of an ambitious woman who struggles to avoid being labeled mentally ill, from her childhood to her adulthood, where she turns into a "crazy" who hears voices in her head and is prone to suicide.

From all these people, and from too many others to count, I have received what I need to live a life worth living. I hope that by writing this book I have been able to help others get some things that will help them make their own lives a little better.

Thanks to his common sense and intelligence, Saks describes the suffering he endured with great clarity and sensitivity... He especially wrote the passages in which he explains the healing power of friendship and love with a deeply affecting emotionality.
—The Washington Post

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 416

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition