Back to the Asylum: The Future of Mental Health Law and Policy in the United States

JAMA ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 270 (22) ◽  
pp. 2739
Author(s):  
M. Gregg Bloche
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Is this a revolution? The impact of the Human Rights Act on Mental Health Law

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Paul Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Substantial Change

In ‘Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change’, Prof. Paul Applebaum, writing in 1994, describes a period of tumultuous change in the United States during the late 1960s in civil rights and mental health law and which lasted nearly three decades. At the end of that period, he concluded, there had been little real and substantial change to mental health law in the United States. This article looks at some of the changes to mental health law that have already been wrought in England & Wales by the Human Rights Act 1998 and briefly considers its potential for creating real and substantial change in the longer term.

Crime, Psychiatry and the Insanity Defence: A Report on Some Recent Reforms in the United States

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Jan Brakel ◽  
James L. Cavanaugh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
Psychiatric Profession

There have been substantial developments in mental health law in the United States over the last 10–15 years. One focal point has been the insanity defence, discussed here. The operational consequences of the legal changes remain to be assessed empirically, but informed speculation is possible. Both a description of the reforms and the assessment of their potential effect are relevant to members of the psychiatric profession in Australia, whether they be forensic specialists or traditional practitioners or researchers. Selective consideration of the American experience, as opposed to contemplating wholesale transposition, is the appropriate posture for Australian policymakers.

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