Child psychiatry and the law: second edition

American handbook of psychiatry, second edition, volume 1, The foundations of psychiatry

Law and Psychiatry

a? . *n parts 2 and 3 the problems of criminal responsibility are reviewed, and the 'a J ^ave never read a better and more erudite criticism of the deficiencies of rj , M'Nahten rules in the light of modern psychiatric thought. We are taken 8nt up to modern times and the Durham decision of 1954 in the District of unibia is discussed in detail. J In the last part we are given a glimpse of the fu...

Psychiatry and Criminal Law

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...