Elyn Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School

University of Southern California Law School

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 and an expert in mental health law

Mental health law

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.

She suffers from schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

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 and has written about her experience with the illness in her autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness published by Hyperion Books, 2007.
Dr. Saks is in training as a psychoanalyst in Southern California.

Works

• The Center Cannot Hold:, ISBN 9781401301385
• Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill, ISBN 9780226733975
• Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis, ISBN 9780300076035
• Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law, ISBN 9780814797648

External links

• Interview from National Public Radio
• USC Gould Webpage
• Interview on The Charlie Rose Talk Show
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