Therapeutic Jurisprudence Applied: Essays on Mental Health Law

by Bruce J. Winick

A sensitive policy analysis of law should seek to measure and weigh all of the costs and benefits of legal rules. This book suggests ways in which mental health law can be reshaped -- not only to protect the legal rights of patients, but also to improve their mental health. "[A] lesson on where and how to focus the therapeutic jurisprudence lens so that the concept generates original and fruitful ideas." -- Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890899894
• ISBN13: 9780890899892
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.