Research Catalog

Title

Essays in therapeutic jurisprudence / David B. Wexler, Bruce J. Winick.

Author

Wexler, David B.

Publication

Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, c1991.

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Additional Authors

Winick, Bruce J.

Description

xiv, 322 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Mental health laws > United States
• Insanity (Law) > United States
• Mental Health [MESH]
• Forensic Psychiatry [MESH]
• Jurisprudence [MESH]
• Therapuetics
• Jurisprudence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Putting mental health into mental health law: therapeutic jurisprudence -- An introduction to therapeutic jurisprudence -- Competency to consent to treatment: the distinction between assent and objection -- Competency to consent to voluntary hospitalization: a therapeutic jurisprudence analysis of Zinermon v. Burch -- How and when to correct for juror hindsight bias in mental health malpractice litigation: some preliminary observations -- Shooting yourself in the foot with due care: psychotherapists and crystallized standards of tort liability -- Inducing therapeutic compliance through the criminal law -- Health care compliance: principles and the insanity acquittee conditional release process -- Harnessing the power of the bet: wagering with the government as a mechanism for social and individual change -- Training in law and behavioral sciences: issues from a legal educator's perspective -- Therapeutic jurisprudence as a new research tool.

ISBN

0890894590

LCCN

^^^91074075^

OCLC

24727449

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library