I'd almost forgotten about this one until my mother rummaged through my room to find the copy for 'Book Club'. She jokingly...or perhaps not so...told me she was thinking about calling up Elyn to 'see how she was'. Um...please don't mom. Please don't.
Anyway...even as a Psychology major (just a Bachelor's but still...), schizophrenia has remained such an awful, mysterious thing to me. Even those of us who know better than to conflate it with Multiple Personality Disorder still cringe from the severity and devastation it can bring (Um...hello I Know This Much is True!....severed hand!!!). What makes this book so amazing is Saks' sharp and logical recollection of her own beginnings with the disease as well as vivid depictions of some the worst incidences that it brought. Even more amazing was her ability to overcome all of this to become a tenured law professor at USC.
Back to mom....she works with many affected adults and it opened me up to her world. I still don't know the answers, although it does put another tickmark in the 'pro-medication' column for me. Dr. Saks gave up her practice to write this book - the least we can do is read the thing. (+)
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