Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law & the Limits of Change

by Paul S. Appelbaum

Book Overview

Doubts about the reality of mental illness and the benefits of psychiatric treatment helped foment a revolution in the law's attitude toward mental disorders over the last 25 years. Legal reformers pushed for laws to make it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them when they committed criminal acts. Advocates of reform promised vast changes in how our society deals with the mentally ill; opponents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195068807
• ISBN13: 9780195068801
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"