brucewinick.com » civil http://www.brucewinick.com Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:43:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Civil Commitment – Booksigning http://www.brucewinick.com/archives/335 http://www.brucewinick.com/archives/335#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:24:36 +0000 admin http://www.brucewinick.com/?p=335 Bruce Winick kicks Therapeutic Jurisprudence up several notches in this remarkable new book. With uncommon erudition and in precise, elegant prose, he demonstrates how coercion to mental health treatment — in both its institutional and community forms — can be seen more clearly through the lens of a theory that takes seriously the therapeutic potential of law — John Monahan, Ph.D., University of Virginia

Why be concerned about involuntary civil commitment in an era when it is difficult to get approval to admit even very disturbed psychiatric patients? In the first few pages of this impurtant book, Winick makes the point that many patients continue to confront the reality of involuntary commitment. Then, using clear and graceful prose, he launches into an encyclopedic analysis of the historical, legal, clinical, and ethical issues surrounding involuntary commitment. Combining legal scholarship with clinical insights, Winick establishes a roster of challenging questions that provides a valuable guide for the theoretical and empirical work of those interested in mental health law and the treatment of the mentally ill. — J. Richard Ciccone, M.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Bruce Winick
will discuss his new book at a booksigning on
Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.
Wine & Cheese to follow

Books n’ Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL. 33134
305 442-4408

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