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• Expanding Career Horizons for People with Disabilities:
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• Chads' Chats: Episode 2: Involuntary Treatment with Professor Elyn Saks:
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• "What's My Ailment?" Professor of law, psychology, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at USC's Gould School of Law, Elyn Saks sits down with Maria Bamford to share her personal experiences with schizophrenia
  March 6, 2020
• Author Esme Weijun Wang shares hope at Saks Institute Distinguished Fall Lecture
  November 27, 2019 ...more
• Supported Decision-Making and People with Psychiatric Disabilities: Pioneering Research at California's Saks Institute
  September 17, 2019 ...more
• The Power of Making Decisions
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• Saks Institute Student Scholars Program Celebrates 10 Years
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• Saks Institute Explores Living and Working with Mental Illness
  April 10, 2019 ...more
• Finding Her Center
  September 27, 2018 ...more
• How to handle the dark days of depression
  May 28, 2018 ...more
• Gift supports USC Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy and Ethics
  March 27, 2018 ...more
• Elyn Saks Among USC Distinguished Professors
  February 26, 2018 ...more
• When a person is committed against their will: A legal and mental health labyrinth
  November 28, 2017 ...more
• Podcast - Dr. Elyn Saks: Psychiatric Law, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health Reform
  November 6, 2017 ...more
• Brooklyn Supreme Court hosts lecture on mental illness
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• Elyn Saks and Andrew Solomon: Book Talk on Mental Health
  October 24, 2017 ...more
• The consent dilemma
  August 9, 2017 ...more
• Elyn Saks fights mental-health stigma: 'We are not different from you'
  June 9, 2017 ...more
• The Center Cannot Hold: Medicine, Music, and the Mind
  May 9, 2017 ...more
• Why Freud Still Isn't Dead
  March 10, 2017 ...more
• Noted professor to address Brain Week Rhode Island
  March 5, 2017 ...more
• Why schizophrenia need not rob us of a life in academia
  February 1, 2017 ...more
• The Next Big Thing?
  January 29, 2017 ...more
• How people with schizophrenia stay productive and manage symptoms
  January 24, 2017 ...more
• Elyn Saks given the ACNP Media Award
  December 6, 2016 ...more
• Turning madness into music: A former psychiatric patient's life is now an opera
  September 16, 2016 ...more
• USC's Saks Institute Awarded Battery Powered Grant
  July 27, 2016 ...more
• Professor's life story proves opera-worthy
  July 25, 2016

  Elyn Saks' revealing memoir of her lifelong struggle and journey with mental illness is translated into music ...more

• Video: Saks Institute video showpiece/overview
  February 18, 2016 ...more
• MISC & Saks Talk Mental Health
  November 6, 2015

  On October 30, the School of Cinematic Arts' Media Institute for Social Change and the Gould School of Law's Saks Institute joined forces to host USC's first ever Mental Health Awareness Festival. ...more

• Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast: Elyn Saks on Schizophrenia & Mental Health Law

  September 11, 2015

  The USC professor of law, psychiatry and psychology (in addition to a PhD in Psychoanalysis) talks about her history of schizophrenia, her multiple hospitalizations and how she has learned to manage it. ...more

• Video: Elyn Saks talk before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  September 9, 2015

  The Experience of Mental Illness and Its Impact on the Law ...more

• "Surviving Schizophrenia" Attitude TV episode (New Zealand)

  September 3, 2015

  Elyn Saks, Debra Lampshire and Paris Williams are all world experts on mental health. They're using their personal experiences and working in their respective fields to debunk the myths and stigma surrounding schizophrenia. ...more

• Sacramento Bee: Mentally ill need to be treated with compassion, not as criminals
  May 25, 2015 ...more
• Former CA Senator Darrell Steinberg and USC Professor Elyn Saks to Speak at the Sacramento Press Club
  May 1, 2015 ...more
• Elyn Saks Delivers Powerful Talk About Making Peace with Her Mental Illness
  January 12, 2015 ...more
• Panel discusses mental health education
  October 1, 2014 ...more
• Video: Living with Schizophrenia
  August 27, 2014 ...more
• Video: Ask Elyn Saks Anything: The Stigma Of Mental Illness
  May 12, 2014 ...more
• Video: Elyn Saks discusses her lifelong illness of schizophrenia for the mental health campaign of Vice President Joe Biden's office
  April 25, 2014 ...more
• Elyn Saks interview by NPR's "Talk of the Nation" on Balancing Work, Medication and Mental Illness
  January 30, 2014 ...more
• Mysteries of the Mind: Frederick Frese, Elyn Saks discuss the stigma of their schizophrenia
  January 28, 2014 ...more
• NY Times Publishes Op-Ed by Elyn Saks, "Successful and Schizophrenic"
  January 25, 2014 ...more
• Patrick Kennedy advocates for end to stigma of mental illness
  September 23, 2013 ...more
• My Life with Schizophrenia By Elyn Saks, Special to CNN
  August 12, 2013 ...more

USC Gould News

• On-the job and living with mental health disorders
  November 14, 2018

  Prof. Elyn Saks leads discussion on reducing stigma in the workplace...  more

  
  
• USC Saks Institute receives $3 million gift
  May 10, 2016

  Doris Bry Trust recognizes the significant achievements of Saks Institute...  more

  
  
• Making Campus Mental Health a Priority
  June 4, 2015

  Saks Institute holds fifth annual symposium...  more

  
  
• Campus Mental Health Highlighted
  March 25, 2014

  Saks Institute brings together university officials and students from 50 campuse...  more

  
  
• Glenn Close Joins Saks Institute Board
  August 23, 2013

  Close's mission is to destigmatize mental illness...  more

  
  
• Saks Institute Examines Criminalization of Mental Illness
  June 10, 2013

  Experts evaluate best practices, solutions...  more

  
  
• Prof. Elyn Saks Joins National Advisory Council
  May 31, 2013

  Saks will also attend Mental Health Conference at the White House...  more

  
  
• Former Washington Post Journalist Speaks About 'Crazy' Mental Health System
  December 10, 2012

  Pete Earley discusses search to help his son at Saks Institute for Mental Health...  Click here to view a video of the lecture.
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• Elyn Saks Speaks at TEDGlobal
  June 19, 2012

  Addresses life with schizophrenia - video available online...  more

  
  
• Kitty Dukakis Speaks at Saks Institute Symposium
  April 27, 2012

  Two-day conference looks at psychotropic medication and the law...  more

  
  
• LA Times Columnist Discusses Journey with the Soloist
  December 16, 2011

  Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics sponsors event...  more

  
  
• Law professor, mental health patient and advocate
  September 27, 2011

  Elyn Saks gives “Spirit of the Law” talk...  more

  
  
• Saks Institute Receives $225,000 Grant from Baer Foundation
  August 22, 2011

  Baer Foundation devoted to funding research on schizophrenia...  more

  
  
• Saks Institute holds inaugural symposium on restraints
  May 31, 2011

  Mental health experts discuss ethical, legal implications...  more

  
  
• Mental Health Experts Speak at Saks Institute Symposium
  November 18, 2010

  Ethics, Mental Illness, and Mechanical Restraints discussed...  more

  
  
• USC Law professor underwrites new Institute
  August 25, 2010

  “Genius Grant” recipient founds Saks Institute...  more

  
  
• Elyn Saks Wins MacArthur Foundation Award
  September 22, 2009

  Elyn Saks published a memoir about her struggles with schizophrenia....  more

  
  

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