April
18
The Center Cannot Hold: My Life as a Patient and a Legal Professional | Professor Eyln Saks
4:30pm - 6:00pm • Golkin 100, Michael A. Fitts Auditorium
2019-04-18 16:30:00 2019-04-18 18:00:00 America/New_York The Center Cannot Hold: My Life as a Patient and a Legal Professional | Professor Eyln Saks Professor Elyn Saks Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the USC Gould School of Law Elyn Saks is Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at USC. Her research has included the ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of people with mental illness. Her memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, describes her struggles with schizophrenia and her managing to craft a good life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. Professor Saks will speak on issues of mental health, law, and ethics, as well as her own experiences with mental illness. Golkin 100, Michael A. Fitts Auditorium Penn Medical EthicsProfessor Elyn Saks
Professor of Law, Psychology, and
Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the USC Gould School of Law
Elyn Saks is Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at USC. Her research has included the ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of people with mental illness. Her memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, describes her struggles with schizophrenia and her managing to craft a good life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. Professor Saks will speak on issues of mental health, law, and ethics, as well as her own experiences with mental illness.