Schizophrenic professor speaks
Seven weeks into her first semester at Yale Law School, Elyn Saks LAW ’86 climbed out a window onto the roof of the Law School library, singing about dancing with demons in Florida.
Her schizophrenia was spinning out of control again. Eventually Saks managed to return to her room, where she worried about the memos she could not write and the mass murders she thought she would commit.
Saks, now a professor of law, psychology, psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law spoke to about 60 students and professors in the...
Another story of mental illness at Yale is of a man who put up posters all over Yale (and on student's books in the library), defending himself against a "movie" that he thought students were watching of him.
Pretty weird, eh? I was that man, and my story will be appearing in the spring issue of "Schizophrenia Bulletin."