Explains how both the criminal justice and mental health systems neglect the needs of mentally disordered civil and criminal defendants, examining the literature of sociology, psychology, criminology, law, and medicine. Explores issues including definitions of insanity; the insanity defense; predic
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For anyone with a general understanding of postmodern thought and an interest in psychiatric issues in justice, this book is a must read...This book makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of this field and should be read by anyone who purports to have an understanding of legal issues in mental illness.
–Jeffrey T. Walker, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
–Jeffrey T. Walker, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
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As a society, how do we value persons labeled mentally ill or criminally insane? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychiatric citizens, psychiatric courtroom, languaged metaphors, clinicolegal decision brokers, future possible harm, incarceration for the criminally insane, disordered citizen, mental health systems users, civil commitment matters, confinement law, involuntary outpatient civil commitment, psychiatric justice, least restrictive alternative doctrine, psychiatric consumers, communicative market, confinement matters, appellate case law, overt act requirement, civil commitment cases, relevant state interests, replacement grammar, mental health citizens, semiotic grid, involuntary outpatient commitment, psychiatrically disordered Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, Supreme Court, Jacques Lacan, Symbolic Order, University of Chicago Press, Discourse of the Analyst, Government Printing Office, American Bar Association, Oxford University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Aldine de Gruyter, Row Publishers, University of California Press, Archives of General Psychiatry, Beverly Hills, Cornell University Press, Department of Justice, Sage Publications, Free Press, Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press, Metropolitan Court New!
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psychiatric citizens, psychiatric courtroom, languaged metaphors, clinicolegal decision brokers, future possible harm, incarceration for the criminally insane, disordered citizen, mental health systems users, civil commitment matters, confinement law, involuntary outpatient civil commitment, psychiatric justice, least restrictive alternative doctrine, psychiatric consumers, communicative market, confinement matters, appellate case law, overt act requirement, civil commitment cases, relevant state interests, replacement grammar, mental health citizens, semiotic grid, involuntary outpatient commitment, psychiatrically disordered Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, Supreme Court, Jacques Lacan, Symbolic Order, University of Chicago Press, Discourse of the Analyst, Government Printing Office, American Bar Association, Oxford University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Aldine de Gruyter, Row Publishers, University of California Press, Archives of General Psychiatry, Beverly Hills, Cornell University Press, Department of Justice, Sage Publications, Free Press, Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press, Metropolitan Court New!
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- Black's Law Dictionary, Second Pocket Edition by Bryan A. Garner on page 64, and page 217
- The Language of Madness (Pelican S.) by David Cooper on page 221
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on page 256
- Natural Born Killers: Tie-In by John August on page 73
- Homeless Mentally Ill by Lamb on page 102
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