Rate My Professor Elyn Saks

Saks specializes in mental health law, with research interests in law and mental health, ethical dimensions of psychiatric research, and forced treatment of people with mental illness. She has published five books, including Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data (Fordham University Press, 2013), The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hyperion, 2007), Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (Yale University Press, 1999), and Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (New York University Press, 1997), along with more than fifty articles and book chapters in outlets such as Schizophrenia Bulletin, Lancet Psychiatry, and Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice. Among her honors are the 2009 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, Time Magazine's 2007 Top Ten Non-Fiction Book of the Year for her memoir, Phi Beta Kappa membership, and awards from organizations including National Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health America. In 2013, she was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Center for Mental Health Services National Advisory Council and serves on boards of Mental Health Advocacy Services, Bring Change 2 Mind, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the Burton Blatt Institute.