An Evening with Author Elyn Saks

Elyn Saks is Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California and author of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. She will talk about her personal battle with schizophrenia and acute psychosis and discuss how she learned to control her symptoms, make peace with the voices in her head, and go on to achieve both personal and professional success as a professor, author and advocate for the rights of the mentally ill.

Saks is an expert in mental health law, a distinguished scholar and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship “genius grant” recipient. Before joining the USC Law faculty in 1989, she was an attorney in Connecticut and instructor at the University of Bridgeport School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University before earning her master of letters from Oxford University and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she also edited the Yale Law Journal. She holds a Ph.D. in psychoanalytic science from the New Center for Psychoanalysis.

She will be available to sign copies of her recent memoir from 2 to 2:45 p.m. in the Pearson Library foyer. Light refreshments will be served.