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    <body><![CDATA[An eye-opening memoir.  What it what it lacks in stylistic flare, it more than makes up for in bracing sincerity.  The author pulls back the curtains on the subjective experience of schizophrenia.<br/><br/>This is an unflinching testament of what it FEELS like -- not just what it LOOKS like from t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7657656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book. Occasionally, it was difficult to read the author continuously making the same mistakes in her recovery process. Though at the same time it was comforting, because it was a clear representation of the human character. The attempt to abolish the reality of the situation to the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12949482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author, Elyn Saks, is an academic (Yale Law School, Oxford scholar, etc.) who has struggled with schizophrenia all her life. It's very well written and easy to read. As an MD, I was interested about the mental health issues raised in the book and what schizophrenic persons are really experiencin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10732815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating and enlightening memoir about a life lived to its fullest despite suffering from schizophrenia. I learned so much about the inner life of a person with this particular mental illness, and found my heart stirring over and over with compassion for anyone so afflicted. The book is filled ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6106968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing memoir about her lifelong battle with schizophrenia and how she managed to battle, cope and come out on top with a law degree and tenor at USC.  Her diagnosis took a long time and she suffered deeply.  But she was a highly driven person who would not give in to her madness and wouldn't let i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40609611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who says someone with schizophrenia can't win a MacArthur (genius) award? Or, for that matter, a Nobel Prize? In this amazing book, Elyn Saks details her own experience of schizophrenia, rife with psychotic breaks and an adversarial relationship with the medications that helped to prevent that as sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75594024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[certainly a very informative and moving memoire about living with schizophrenia. i enjoyed reading the intimate description of the internal processes associated with psychotic episodes. it truly is unique in that way as few remain as cognitive intact as this author once diagnosed with schizophrenia....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42577800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the best book on living with schizophrenia out there, not to mention one of the most fascinating memoirs I have ever read.  Details Elyn's life with one of the most debilitating thought disorders one can have from the symptoms she had as a child (houses talking to her on the way to school) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59645977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As someone who has worked with people with severe &amp; persistent mental illnesses, I was encouraged by Ms. Saks' successes &amp; appreciated her candor in relating her experiences in living with schizophrenia.  I was troubled, however, by her use of psychoanalysis as her treatment of choice.  I was surpri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64772960">more...</a>]]></body>
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