Elyn Saks

Elyn Saks
Saks speaks at Yale Law School in 2017
Alma materVanderbilt University, Oxford University, Yale Law School, New Center for Psychoanalysis
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bridgeport School of Law, University of Southern California Law School, New Center for Psychoanalysis

Elyn R. Saks is an American legal scholar who is an 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, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007. She is also a cancer survivor.

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