Elyn Saks
- Holder of Orrin B. Evans Professorship in Law and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences
- Professor of Law
- USC Gould School of Law
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Expertise Summary
Expert on mental health issues and the 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
- Author of Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (1997)
- Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (1997)
- Law, Ethics and Severe Mental Illness: Questioning Our Values (2002)
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2007)