During the 162nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association being held in San Francisco May 16-21, 2009, Professor Winick will present his paper entitled Developing a Mental Health Court for Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A New Judicial Model on May 20th. This session will teach about such Courts by describing and evaluating a new...
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Reviewed by Dan A. Lewis, Department of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Mental health law has had an interesting last 40 years. Born of the reform movements of the 1960s and fueled by a civil rights and critical spirit, it has moved through the policy cycle that begins with great vigor and youthful...
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(Carolina Academic Press, 2005) Bruce Winick kicks Therapeutuc 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...
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