Elyn Saks | Academic Influence

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Elyn Saks

Law

#285

World Rank

#414

Historical Rank

#176

USA Rank

International Law

#1400

World Rank

#1672

Historical Rank

#634

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Elyn Saks

Biology

#15639

World Rank

#19668

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#3069

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, 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. She is also a cancer survivor.

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Elyn Saks's Published Works

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Assessing decisional capacity for clinical research or treatment: a review of instruments. (2006) (412)
Research involving persons with mental disorders that may affect decisionmaking capacity. (2002) (138)
Recovery from schizophrenia: with views of psychiatrists, psychologists, and others diagnosed with this disorder. (2009) (129)
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2007) (128)
The California Scale of Appreciation: a new instrument to measure the appreciation component of capacity to consent to research. (2002) (65)
Proxy consent to research: the legal landscape. (2008) (55)
Prevalence and correlates of adequate performance on a measure of abilities related to decisional capacity: Differences among three standards for the MacCAT-CR in patients with schizophrenia (2007) (54)
The Center Cannot Hold (2007) (52)
Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Considerations When Disclosing a High‐Risk Syndrome for Psychosis (2015) (45)
Supported Decision Making in Serious Mental Illness (2018) (41)
Decisional capacity in mental illness and substance use disorders: empirical database and policy implications. (2006) (41)
Approaches to neuromodulation for schizophrenia (2017) (37)
Capacity to consent to or refuse treatment and/or research: theoretical considerations. (2006) (32)
A collaborative model for research on decisional capacity and informed consent in older patients with schizophrenia: Bioethics unit of a geriatric psychiatry intervention research center (2003) (30)
Why We Need Positive Psychiatry for Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. (2017) (27)
Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (1999) (24)
Involuntary outpatient commitment. (2003) (23)
Improving classification of psychoses. (2016) (21)
Are we ready for a name change for schizophrenia? A survey of multiple stakeholders (2021) (20)
Decisional capacity and consent for schizophrenia research. (2011) (20)
Ethical Issues in Psychosocial Interventions Research Involving Controls (2002) (19)
Towards diagnostic markers for the psychoses. (2016) (19)
The Use of Mechanical Restraints in Psychiatric Hospitals (1986) (18)
Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (2002) (17)
How Occupationally High-Achieving Individuals With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Manage Their Symptoms. (2017) (17)
Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (1997) (16)
Some thoughts on denial of mental illness. (2009) (16)
Competency to Refuse Treatment (1991) (15)
Competency to consent. (1991) (14)
Therapeutic jurisprudence: informed consent as a clinical indication for the chronically suicidal patient with borderline personality disorder. (1998) (13)
Does multiple personality disorder exist? The beliefs, the data, and the law. (1994) (13)
Meta-consent in research on decisional capacity: a "Catch-22"? (2005) (11)
Decisional capacity to consent to research in schizophrenia: An examination of errors (2011) (7)
Avoidance of accelerated aging in schizophrenia?: Clinical and biological characterization of an exceptionally high functioning individual (2017) (7)
Psychoanalysis and the Psychoses: Commentary on Kafka (2011) (6)
Promoting Wellness in Older Adults with Mental Illnesses and Substance Use Disorders: Call to Action to All Stakeholders. (2018) (5)
Retributive constraints on the concept of competency: the required role of 'patently false beliefs' in understanding competency to be executed. (2009) (5)
Holding onto the center: Lived experience and the construct of schizophrenia (2022) (4)
Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Use of Psychiatric Advance Directives (2004) (4)
Mental Health Law and the Americans With Disabilities Act: One Consumer's Journey (2016) (4)
Recovery in Mental Illnesses (2015) (4)
Psychoanalysis: Past, present, and future contributions to the law. (2001) (2)
Competency to refuse psychotropic medication: three alternatives to the law's cognitive standard. (1993) (2)
«Sould murder» as destruction of psychic integrity : further development of the theme of possessiveness in Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1991) (2)
The criminal responsibility of people with multiple personality disorder (1995) (2)
Concrete Steps (2021) (2)
The importance of accommodations in higher education. (2008) (2)
CONVERSATION ABOUT SAKS INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICS AND OUR FOCUS ON THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER (2018) (1)
CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH-FUNCTIONING PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA (2008) (1)
Review Dialogue: A Conversation between Robert A. Burt and Elyn R. Saks (2008) (1)
HIGH ACHIEVING INDIVIDUALS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED TO MANAGE SYMPTOMS (2012) (1)
Book Review: Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy (2016) (1)
Essential Papers on Psychosis (1988) (1)
Empathy (2021) (0)
Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes (2021) (0)
3 . Civil Commitment: How Civil? (2019) (0)
Psychosis, Pain, and Time: A Personal Reflection (2015) (0)
The Least Diverse Profession: Comment on Blanck, Hyseni, and Altunkol Wise’s National Study of Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession (2021) (0)
Laws and Policies (2021) (0)
Summing Up (2021) (0)
Impact of Opera on Mental Health Stigma: Pilot of Provider/Community Workshop (2021) (0)
From psychosis to psychoses: diagnosing psychotic disorders in the 21st century 1 Improving classifi cation of psychoses (2016) (0)
5 . Seclusion: The Path of Least Resistance? (2019) (0)
The Three Faces of Evil (1998) (0)
3. The Models (2017) (0)
4 . The Right to Refuse Medication: When Can I Just Say No? (2019) (0)
6 . Mechanical Restraints: Loosening the Bonds (2019) (0)
Commentary: The Importance of Accommodations in Higher Education (2008) (0)
2 . Mental Illness: Making Myths or Genuine Disorders? (2019) (0)
Letter to my younger self (2020) (0)
Stigma-Personal Views. (2020) (0)
Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data (2013) (0)
Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Third Edition, (2013) (0)
Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis (2020) (0)
Interpreting interpretation: Book review. (2002) (0)
1 . Doctors and Lawyers: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? (2019) (0)
Self-Bindinc: Ulysses at the Mast (2002) (0)
Competency to Decide for Another (2020) (0)
Hillman to deliver Dr . (2017) (0)
Psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis (2020) (0)
Book Review Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation: Predicting the Past Edited by Robert I. Simon and Daniel W. Shuman. 471 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Publishing, 2002. $69. 1-58562-001-7 (2002) (0)
7 . Incompetency and Impairment: Choices Made, Choices Denied (2019) (0)
Postsurgical morbidity and mortality favorably informs deep brain stimulation for new indications including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder (2023) (0)
A Candid Admission (2021) (0)
Psychiatric Advance Directives and Supported Decision-Making: Preliminary Developments and Pilot Studies in California (2021) (0)
Advocacy, Self‐Help, and Client‐Operated Services (2015) (0)
From psychosis to psychoses: diagnosing psychotic disorders in the 21st century 2 Towards diagnostic markers for the psychoses (2016) (0)
Deepening Understanding (2021) (0)

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