The Contours of Psychiatric Justice: A Postmodern Critque of Mental Illness, Criminal Insanity, and the Law

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Taylor & Francis, 1996 - Law - 274 pages

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

 

Contents

THE MENTALLY ILL THE CRIMINALLY
23
WHEN THE LAW SPEAKS
47
Incarceration for the Criminally Insane Mainstream Legalists Medical
89
CONFINEMENT LAWS PRACTICES
95
INSTITUTIONALIZATION
129
BEYOND PSYCHIATRIC JUSTICE
203
INDEX
263
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