Saks managed to achieve both professional and personal success in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis. In this memoir, she frankly and movingly discusses the disease, and the treatments that helped her to cope and thrive.
Draws on law, psychiatry, and philosophy to explore the nature of alter personalities and multiple personality disorder, and shows how different concepts of personhood, responsibility, and punishment affect the laws regarding criminal responsibility. For anyone interested in law, criminal justice,
An exploration of what hermeneutic psychoanalysis is and how the approaches of hermeneutic psychoanalysts differ. It finds that these psychoanalysts use the same words, concepts and analogies, but they hold to at least five different positions on the truth of psychoanalytic interpretations.
U.S. government programs to aid the poor have long been controversial, with much debate centering on how much assistance should be offered and what forms it should take. This volume provides an overview of how such programs work.
It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity. If so, out treatment of the mentally ill suggests that American society is inhumane: swinging between overintervention and utter neglect, we sometimes force extreme treatments on those who do not want them, and at other times discharge mentally ...
No two cities are more symbolic of the modern American metropolis than New York and Los Angeles. But while New York boasts a recently revitalized urban centre, Los Angeles is the classic example of sprawl and decentralization, with multiple clusters of economic and social activity dispersed throughout its surrounding area. This volume presents ...
Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's the author of several books. Happily married. And - a schizophrenic. Saks lifts the veil on schizophrenia with her startling and honest account of how she learned to live with this debilitating disease. With a coolly clear, measured tone she talks ...
Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's the author of several books. Happily married. And - a schizophrenic. Saks lifts the veil on schizophrenia with her startling and honest account of how she learned to live with this debilitating disease. With a coolly clear, measured tone she talks ...
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