To receive releases by e-mail, please enter your name and address below.




Newsroom

Elyn Saks

Expert on mental health issues and the law

Holder of Orrin B. Evans Professorship in Law and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Law
USC Gould School of Law

Contact at: (213) 740-7572 or esaks@law.usc.edu


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).