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An Evening with Elyn Saks - Put May 12 on your calendar
 
A Video-teleconference with Elyn Saks from the University of Southern California speaking on schizophrenia will be followed by questions from the audience.
This is a free event Sponsored by NAMI Albuquerque and The University of New Mexico Psychiatry Department’s Center for Rural and Community Behavioral Health
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Refreshments: 6:00 - 6:30 pm
Presentation: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
UNMDomeniciCenterfor Health Sciences Education auditorium (Room 1220)
Free parking (M lot): RSVP requested by April 28 – (Melissa) mcalderon@salud.unm.edu, 505-272-6238
Program: "Schizophrenia," Elyn Saks writes, "rolls in like a fog, becoming imperceptibly thicker as time goes on." Saks is a professor of law, psychology and psychiatry and the behavioral sciences, and she's written widely on mental health and the law. But her knowledge of schizophrenia is deep and personal. Though many of her colleagues and students are just now learning it, Saks herself suffers from the disease. It emerged when she was in college and strengthened in graduate school. She suffered serious episodes of delusions and paranoia, at times mumbling to herself in hallways and forgetting to eat and bathe. Remarkably, despite several hospitalizations, Saks managed to graduate as class valedictorian at Vanderbilt and complete studies at Oxford and Yale law school. She's told her story in a new memoir. It's called "The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness."
Who should attend: Consumers, family members, behavioral health students and professionals, mental health lawyers, law enforcement, legislators, social workers, and those interested in understanding the experiences of people living with schizophrenia and a perspective on mental health law from one who is living with a mental illness.
Other simultaneous video conference locations: Las Cruces (NMSU) and Santa Fe (Southwest Care Center). Contact the local NAMI office for specific information
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