Elyn Saks is Vanderbilt graduate and associate dean, Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences, USC Gould School of Law.
Elyn Saks was a Founder’s Medalist at Vanderbilt and Marshall Scholar at
before getting her law degree from Yale. She also suffers from schizophrenia that has caused her to experience wild hallucinations, debilitating paranoia and violent psychotic breaks. Her latest book, “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”, is a clear-eyed portrait of a brilliant mind run off the rails and one of Time magazine’s Top 10 Nonfiction books of 2007.
The speech is part of the 2007-2008 Chancellor’s Lecture Series. The Chancellor’s Lecture Series serves to bring to Vanderbilt and the wider Nashville community intellectuals who are shaping the world today. For more information about the Chancellor’s Lecture Series, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/cls.
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