Law and Psychiatry: Rethinking the Relationship

by Michael S. Moore

Book Overview

This book is about the competing images of man offered us by the disciplines of law and psychiatry. Michael Moore describes the legal view of persons as rational and autonomous and defends it from the challenges presented by three psychiatric ideas: that badness is illness, that the unconscious rules our mental life, and that a person is a community of selves more than a unified single self. Using the tools of modern philosophy, he attempts to show...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521319781
• ISBN13: 9780521319782
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"