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Elyn R. Saks

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The United States

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Nonfiction, Health, Mind & Body

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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: 4.10 · 1,789 ratings · 355 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.11 avg rating — 1,805 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law by Elyn R. Saks, Stephen H. Behnke 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States by Elyn R. Saks, Robert A. Moffitt (Editor) 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	De geschiedenis van mijn gekte: leven met schizofrenie by Elyn R. Saks, Marja Kooreman (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Essential Papers on Psychosis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society, and Culture--A Comparative View by Elyn R. Saks, David Halle (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	A Hidden Madness by James T.R. Jones, Elyn R. Saks (Foreword) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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