Date: Sunday, March 12
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: Salomon Hall, Brown University, 79 Waterman St. (directions)
Open to: All
Price: Free
Space available: 594
Sponsored by the Brown Institute for Brain Science.
Elyn Saks is Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is an expert in mental health law and an advocate for those living with mental illness. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009, and used her award to establish the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics. She has written three books on the law, and a memoir of her experience with schizophrenia called The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness, which won the Time Magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of the Year Award, the Books for a Better Life Inspirational Memoir Award, and has been on the New York Times Extended Best Sellers List. You can watch her 2012 TED talk here.
