SCHIZOPHRENIA
(8 min)
BONUS: Famous People with Schizophrenia
(2 min)
Roberta Payne, PhD
Roberta Payne has schizophrenia and self-medicated with alcohol. After receiving proper medical treatment for her mental illness, she obtained an advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of California Los Angeles and is now a published author and artist (Payne, 2014) (16 min)
Elyn Saks, PhD
Dr. Saks is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School and is an associate dean and Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School. Dr. Saks is a winner of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, receiving a $500,000 ‘genius grant,’ which she used to establish The Saks Institute for Mental Health Law. She has received many other prestigious awards and is also a published author. Dr Saks has schizophrenia (Saks, n.d.; NPR, 2011)