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Elyn Saks

Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007. Saks is also a cancer survivor.

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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense ...

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I c ...

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County ...

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot o ...

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you ...

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there a ...

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, bu ...

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth ...

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never me ...

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number ...

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely dis ...

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waki ...

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.