Bruce J Winick
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce J Winick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce J |
| FAMILY NAME | Winick |
| SIGNATURE | WINICK B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Dialogue on Mental Health Courts
A dialogue on mental health courts
In this Foreword, the co-guest editors of this symposium on mental health courts introduce the topic by defining the concept, describing the reasons for its inception, and noting the controversies it has provoked. It then summarizes the articles in the symposium. Finally, the editors, who disagree about the value, effectiveness, and consequences of this new model, air their differences in a dialogue designed to delineate the issues and educate th…
A symposium on outpatient commitment dedicated to Bruce Ennis, Alexander Brooks, and Stanley Herr
Outpatient commitment: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
This article analyzes the legal and therapeutic jurisprudence considerations raised by outpatient commitment. Although older forms of outpatient commitment have both legal and therapeutic advantages, preventive outpatient commitment raises serious legal problems and potential antitherapeutic consequences that may outweigh its claimed therapeutic value. As a result, alternatives are proposed, including wider availability of community treatment and…
Redefining the role of the criminal defense lawyer at plea bargaining and sentencing: A therapeutic jurisprudence/preventive law model
Redefining the role of the criminal defense lawyer at plea bargaining and sentencing: A therapeutic jurisprudence/preventive law model
Sex offender law in the 1990s: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
Sex offenders and the law
In this foreword, the editors of this special issue describe recent developments in the law pertaining to sex offenders and summarize the articles in the issue. These articles analyze sex offender law in its historical context, the science of sex offenders (including risk assessment, treatment, and prevention), legal theory relating to sex offender law, evidentiary and remedial issues, and policy issues. The editors conclude with a discussion of …
Client denial and resistance in the advance directive context: Reflections on how attorneys can identify and deal with a psycholegal soft spot
An important reason why advance directive instruments are underused is that people faced with the need to think about the end-of-life, or future mental health problems or the need for nursing home admission experience psychological stress that produces denial and procrastination. This essay examines how lawyers counseling clients about advance directive instruments can deal with such denial and resistance. It explains the psychological defense me…
Sex offender law in the 1990s: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
The jurisprudence of therapeutic jurisprudence
The jurisprudence of therapeutic jurisprudence
In less than a decade, therapeutic jurisprudence, which began as a scholarly approach to mental health law, has emerged as a mental health approach to law generally. In this essay, one of the founders of this new field offers a further elaboration of the theory of therapeutic jurisprudence and a response to the key issues raised by commentators and critics. This essay discusses the relationship between therapeutic jurisprudence and other schools …
Foreward: A summary of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Study and an introduction to the special theme
The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study: Legal and therapeutic implications
Foreward: A summary of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Study and an introduction to the special theme
The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study: Legal and therapeutic implications
Ambiguities in the legal meaning and significance of mental illness
Ambiguities in the legal meaning and significance of mental illness
The side effects of incompetency labeling and the implications for mental health law
In addition to labeling people as mentally ill, the law often labels them as incompetent to exercise certain rights or to play particular roles. Indeed, under the broad dicta of Zinermon v. Burch, incompetency labeling may increase dramatically. This article uses principles of social and cognitive psychology to examine the effects of incompetency labeling. Such labeling is shown to produce potentially serious adverse effects. It often alters the …
The jurisprudence of therapeutic jurisprudence
In less than a decade, therapeutic jurisprudence, which began as a scholarly approach to mental health law, has emerged as a mental health approach to law generally. In this essay, one of the founders of this new field offers a further elaboration of the theory of therapeutic jurisprudence and a response to the key issues raised by commentators and critics. This essay discusses the relationship between therapeutic jurisprudence and other schools …
Sex offender law in the 1990s: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
A dialogue on mental health courts
In this Foreword, the co-guest editors of this symposium on mental health courts introduce the topic by defining the concept, describing the reasons for its inception, and noting the controversies it has provoked. It then summarizes the articles in the symposium. Finally, the editors, who disagree about the value, effectiveness, and consequences of this new model, air their differences in a dialogue designed to delineate the issues and educate th…
Redefining the role of the criminal defense lawyer at plea bargaining and sentencing: A therapeutic jurisprudence/preventive law model
Outpatient commitment: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
This article analyzes the legal and therapeutic jurisprudence considerations raised by outpatient commitment. Although older forms of outpatient commitment have both legal and therapeutic advantages, preventive outpatient commitment raises serious legal problems and potential antitherapeutic consequences that may outweigh its claimed therapeutic value. As a result, alternatives are proposed, including wider availability of community treatment and…
Sex offenders and the law
In this foreword, the editors of this special issue describe recent developments in the law pertaining to sex offenders and summarize the articles in the issue. These articles analyze sex offender law in its historical context, the science of sex offenders (including risk assessment, treatment, and prevention), legal theory relating to sex offender law, evidentiary and remedial issues, and policy issues. The editors conclude with a discussion of …
Client denial and resistance in the advance directive context: Reflections on how attorneys can identify and deal with a psycholegal soft spot
An important reason why advance directive instruments are underused is that people faced with the need to think about the end-of-life, or future mental health problems or the need for nursing home admission experience psychological stress that produces denial and procrastination. This essay examines how lawyers counseling clients about advance directive instruments can deal with such denial and resistance. It explains the psychological defense me…
The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study: Legal and therapeutic implications
The side effects of incompetency labeling and the implications for mental health law
In addition to labeling people as mentally ill, the law often labels them as incompetent to exercise certain rights or to play particular roles. Indeed, under the broad dicta of Zinermon v. Burch, incompetency labeling may increase dramatically. This article uses principles of social and cognitive psychology to examine the effects of incompetency labeling. Such labeling is shown to produce potentially serious adverse effects. It often alters the …
Ambiguities in the legal meaning and significance of mental illness
Ambiguities in the legal meaning and significance of mental illness
The side effects of incompetency labeling and the implications for mental health law
In addition to labeling people as mentally ill, the law often labels them as incompetent to exercise certain rights or to play particular roles. Indeed, under the broad dicta of Zinermon v. Burch, incompetency labeling may increase dramatically. This article uses principles of social and cognitive psychology to examine the effects of incompetency labeling. Such labeling is shown to produce potentially serious adverse effects. It often alters the …
Foreward: A summary of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Study and an introduction to the special theme
The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study: Legal and therapeutic implications
Foreward: A summary of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Study and an introduction to the special theme
The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study: Legal and therapeutic implications
The jurisprudence of therapeutic jurisprudence
The jurisprudence of therapeutic jurisprudence
In less than a decade, therapeutic jurisprudence, which began as a scholarly approach to mental health law, has emerged as a mental health approach to law generally. In this essay, one of the founders of this new field offers a further elaboration of the theory of therapeutic jurisprudence and a response to the key issues raised by commentators and critics. This essay discusses the relationship between therapeutic jurisprudence and other schools …
Sex offender law in the 1990s: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
Sex offenders and the law
In this foreword, the editors of this special issue describe recent developments in the law pertaining to sex offenders and summarize the articles in the issue. These articles analyze sex offender law in its historical context, the science of sex offenders (including risk assessment, treatment, and prevention), legal theory relating to sex offender law, evidentiary and remedial issues, and policy issues. The editors conclude with a discussion of …
Client denial and resistance in the advance directive context: Reflections on how attorneys can identify and deal with a psycholegal soft spot
An important reason why advance directive instruments are underused is that people faced with the need to think about the end-of-life, or future mental health problems or the need for nursing home admission experience psychological stress that produces denial and procrastination. This essay examines how lawyers counseling clients about advance directive instruments can deal with such denial and resistance. It explains the psychological defense me…
Sex offender law in the 1990s: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
Redefining the role of the criminal defense lawyer at plea bargaining and sentencing: A therapeutic jurisprudence/preventive law model
Redefining the role of the criminal defense lawyer at plea bargaining and sentencing: A therapeutic jurisprudence/preventive law model
A symposium on outpatient commitment dedicated to Bruce Ennis, Alexander Brooks, and Stanley Herr
Outpatient commitment: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis
This article analyzes the legal and therapeutic jurisprudence considerations raised by outpatient commitment. Although older forms of outpatient commitment have both legal and therapeutic advantages, preventive outpatient commitment raises serious legal problems and potential antitherapeutic consequences that may outweigh its claimed therapeutic value. As a result, alternatives are proposed, including wider availability of community treatment and…
A Dialogue on Mental Health Courts
A dialogue on mental health courts
In this Foreword, the co-guest editors of this symposium on mental health courts introduce the topic by defining the concept, describing the reasons for its inception, and noting the controversies it has provoked. It then summarizes the articles in the symposium. Finally, the editors, who disagree about the value, effectiveness, and consequences of this new model, air their differences in a dialogue designed to delineate the issues and educate th…
Psychology (17 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (9 works) · Mental health (9 works) · Jurisprudence (7 works) · Therapeutic jurisprudence (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (6 works)