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Elyn R. Saks

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Elyn R. Saks, training to be a psychoanalyst, specializes in mental health law, criminal law, and children and the law. Her recent research focused on ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of the mentally ill. She teaches Mental Health Law, Mental Health Law and the Criminal Justice System, and Advanced Family Law: The Rights and Interests of Children. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Law at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. In her capacity as associate dean, Dean Saks oversees research and grants at USC Law.

Dean Saks recently published The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hyperion, 2007), a ...more

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Average rating: 4.32 · 22,840 ratings · 2,075 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.33 avg rating — 22,755 ratings — published 2007 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hidden Madness by James T.R. Jones, Elyn R. Saks (Foreword) 3.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law by Elyn R. Saks, Stephen H. Behnke 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Essential Schizophrenia Companion: with Foreword by Elyn R. Saks, Phd, Jd by Robert Francis (Goodreads Author), Elyn R. Saks (Foreword) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essential Papers on Psychosis by Peter J. Buckley, Elyn R. Saks 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory and the Data by Elyn R. Saks, Shahrokh Golshan 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Centre Cannot Hold it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks, Alma Cuervo (narrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.”
― Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

tags: mental-illness, psychology, schizophrenia

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“Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.”
― Elyn R. Saks

tags: diagnosis, medical-profession, mental-disorder, mental-health-professionals, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness

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“in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.”
― Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

tags: anxiety, panic-and-anxiety, panic-attacks, panicky

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