I am a child of the 60s. This is no surprise to anyone who has talked to me for more than five
minutes or who has read any of my writings about Bob Dylan. But it is much more than …

In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience
of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary …

Dignity is at the core of therapeutic jurisprudence, 80 and it also is the key underpinning of
mental health courts. 8 Prof. Carol Sanger suggests that dignity means that people" possess …

The question of whether a patient has insight is among the first to be considered in
psychiatric contexts. There are several competing conceptions of clinical insight, which …

The common wisdom is that there are twin, related villains in the saga of the" criminalization
of persons with mental illness": the drastic elimination of psychiatric hospital beds in the …

Persons with disabilities, especially mental disabilities, are disproportionately traumatized
by the existence of their disability and their treatment by others, both in community and …

Examining the treatment of persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system,
this book offers new perspectives that are crucial to an understanding of the ways in which …

The idea that our actions may not be as free as we perceive them to be raises questions not
only of how we perceive our everyday behavior but also of how we perceive behavior that is …

Making threats and offers to patients is a strategy used in community mental healthcare to
increase treatment adherence. In this paper, an ethical analysis of these types of proposal is …

Anosognosia is a common symptom of schizophrenia and schizoaffeclive disorder that
renders individuals unable to understand that they are living with a disease. This symptom …