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Elyn Saks Biography

Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007. Saks is also a cancer survivor.

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Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Motivation, Inspiration, Views, Safe, Hold, Psychiatric

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

Hear, People, Please, Schizophrenia

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L. A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

County, Inspiration, Jail, Mental, Motivation, United

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Numbers, Community, Faces, Against, Mental

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

Mind, Splits, Waking, Nightmare, Say

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Way, Psychotic, Becomes, Ways, Everyone

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled. ’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

Doctors, Reasons, School, View, Wrote, Yale

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Powerful, Mind, Defense, Illness, Mental

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

Worst Enemy, Mind, My Best Friend, Worst, Enemy

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

Broken, Legs, People, Say

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

Schizophrenia, Psychiatric, Psychiatric Hospitals, Back, Differently

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

Powerful, Children, Knowing, Supportive, Schizophrenia, Nothing

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker

Children, Coworker, May, Neighbor, People, Schizophrenia

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

Depth, Diagnoses, Illness, Inspiration, Motivation, People

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Fortune, Lies, Lying, Mental Illness, Recovered