Author

Elyn R. Saks

1 book, mostly biography, for Recorded Books, 2007

Elyn R. Saks is an American legal scholar, author, and professor whose writing focuses on mental health law, psychiatry, and the rights of people with mental illness. Her acclaimed memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2007), recounts her experience with schizophrenia and acute psychosis alongside her academic and professional career. She has also written scholarly books on forced psychiatric treatment, psychoanalytic theory, and mental illness in criminal law.