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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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The Center Cannot Hold: My ...
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Refusing Care: Forced Treat...
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Jekyll on Trial: Multiple P...
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Informed Consent to Psychoa...
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Essential Papers on Psychosis
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Interpreting Interpretation...
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A Hidden Madness
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