The new edition of Black’s Law Dictionary contains an entry for therapeutic jurisprudence:
therapeutic jurisprudence. The study of the effects of law and the legal system on the behavior, emotions, and mental health of people: esp., a multidisciplinary examination of how law and mental health interact.
• ‘This discipline originated in the late 1980s as an academic approach to mental-health law.
Bryan A. Gardner, ed., Black’s Law Dictionary pg 933 (9th ed. 2009)
