Essays in Therapeutic Jurisprudence

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ESSAYS IN THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE (Carolina Academic Press 1991) (with David B. Wexler)
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What mental health law craves are new ideas, and Essay in Therapeutic Jurisprudence is brimming with them. With an extraordinary blend of legal sophistication, clinical sensitivity, and empirical support, two of the most creative scholars in the field have produced a work that can genuinely be called exciting. This book could breathe life into policy, practice, and research in mental health law.
John Monahan, Henry and Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Legal Medicine, University of Virginia

Therapeutic jurisprudence is a tonic of what ails mental health law. In essays, Wexler and Winick offer an elegant analysis of the problem….[This book] will set the agenda for the next generation of reform in the civil and criminal systems that deal with the mentally ill.
Paul S. Appelbaum, A.F. Zeleznik Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Law and Psychiatry Program,
University of Massachusetts

In these excellent essays on mental health law, which cover theoretical and practical issues, Wexler and Winick provide rare scholarly penetration, insight and good sense. Their prescription for the law is both provocative and visionary.
Stephen J. Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School;
Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

This is a very important book. Two creative legal scholars are composing mental health law in a new key. These essays will leave an enduring mark on the field.
Richard J. Bonnie, John S. Battle Professor of Law, And Director, Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy,
University of Virginia

Wexler and Winick provide us with a provocative and compelling volume that should be carefully read by all persons concerned with law and mental health issues.
Bruce Sales, Professor of Psychology, Sociology and Law,
University of Arizona

…a close kin to legal realism…a kind of social-psychology of the law emerging as therapeutic jurisprudence….I will [assign] Essays…and feel very comfortable that my students will be the better of it.
Fred Cohen, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York, at Albany