Elyn Saks
Expert on mental health issues and the law
Holder of Orrin B. Evans Professorship in Law and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Law
USC Gould School of Law
Expertise
- use of mechanical restraints in psychiatric hospitals
- right to refuse treatment
- competency to refuse treatment
- multiple personality disorder and the insanity defense
- mental health law
- children and the law
- ethical dimensions of psychiatric research
- forensic psychiatry
- criminal behavior
- criminal law
- mental health and civil law
- mental health law and the criminal justice system
Additional Information
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- Author of
Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law
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- (1997),
Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis
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- (1997),
Law, Ethics and Severe Mental Illness: Questioning Our Values
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- (2002),
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
- (2007).
Videos
- TED talk
- Professor Elyn Saks
