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Insanity (Law)

Here are entered works on the legal standard whereby persons with severe mental disorders are prevented from having legal capacity and are excused from criminal or civil responsibility.

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• Capacity and disability
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• Mentally ill

• Insanity (Law) -- Early works to 1800
• Insanity (Law) -- Fiction
• Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain
• Insanity (Law) -- United States

• Criminal insanity
• Insanity
• Insanity (Jurisprudence)
• Lunacy (Law)
• Mental illness -- Law and legislation
• Mentally ill -- Legal status, laws, etc.

• A Letter to the Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect (London: R. Hunter, 1823), by John Haslam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in Forensic Psychiatry (Criminal Science Monograph #2; 1916), by Bernard Glueck (Gutenberg text)

• Observations on Insanity: With Practical Remarks on the Disease, and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection (London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1798), by John Haslam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Ben Hecht, illust. by Wallace Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Crime and Insanity; Murder and Its Punishment; Musings on Murder (1925), by Charles J. Darling (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • 2 volumes in 1: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: A Study in Medico-Sociological Jurisprudence, With an Appendix of State Legislation and Interpretive Decisions, by Sheldon Glueck (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family (revised edition; New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1945), by Edith M. Stern and Samuel W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness: What Caregivers Need to Know (Vancouver: BCCampus, c2015), by Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (multiple formats with commentary at opentextbc.ca)
• Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness, by Royal Society of Medicine, ed. by Arthur Crisp (HTML at archive.org)
• A Secret Worth Knowing: A Treatise on the Most Important Subject in the World, Simply to Say, Insanity (1846), by G. Grimes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane (1918), by American Medico-Psychological Association and National Committee for Mental Hygiene
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reluctantly Told (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Jane Hillyer, contrib. by Joseph Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Psychology of Mental Disorders (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Abraham Myerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Insanity (Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd for Messrs. Cadell and Davies, 1806), by Philippe Pinel, trans. by D. D. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Community Mental Health: The Role of Church and Temple, ed. by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)

• Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge and Issues, ed. by Elizabeth B. Robertson, Zili Sloboda, Gayle M. Boyd, Lula Beatty, and Nicholas J. Kozel (PDF files at NIH)

• Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case Of Insanity and a No Less Remarkable Difference In Medical Opinion: Developing the Nature of Assailment, and the Manner of Working Events: With a Description of the Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking, and Lengthening the Brain (London: G. Hayden, 1810), by John Haslam (page images at wellcomelibrary.org)

• Where There Is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual (second edition; London: Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2018), by Vikram Patel and Charlotte Hanlon (PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Studies in Word-Association: Experiments in the Diagnosis of Psychopathological Conditions Carried Out at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zurich (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1919), by C. G. Jung, trans. by M. D. Eder (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act (OTA-BP-BBS-124; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Bill of Divorcement: A Play (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Clemence Dane (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observations on Insanity: With Practical Remarks on the Disease, and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection (London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1798), by John Haslam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Little Demon (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1916), by Fyodor Sologub, trans. by John Cournos and Richard Aldington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Sooner or Later: The Story of an Ingenious Ingénue (London: Chapman and Hall, 1904), by Violet Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mental Disorders and Genetics: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Society (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with OCR errors at Princeton)

• Annales Médico-Psychologiques (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Mental Science (partial serial archives)
• The Asylum Journal of Mental Science (full serial archives)
• L'Evolution Psychiatrique (partial serial archives)

• The Maniac: A Realistic Study of Madness From the Maniac's Point of View (London: Rebman, 1909), by E. Thelmar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at surgeongeneral.gov)

• A Letter to the Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect (London: R. Hunter, 1823), by John Haslam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Experiences of an Asylum Patient (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), by Rachel Grant-Smith, ed. by Montagu Lomax (page images at tmc.edu)

• The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Robert L. Hayman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act (OTA-BP-BBS-124; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • 2 volumes in 1: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Lanham, MD et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2009), by Kendra Preston Leonard (PDF at MLA Commons)
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)

• Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Lanham, MD et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2009), by Kendra Preston Leonard (PDF at MLA Commons)

• Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness, by Royal Society of Medicine, ed. by Arthur Crisp (HTML at archive.org)

• Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mental Ward: A Personnel Guidebook (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1962), by Morgan Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mad World and its Inhabitants (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston, Searl and Rivington, 1877), by Julius Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Persecution (2 volumes with different subtitles and publishers; 1873), by E. P. W. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane; With Some Remarks on Insanity and its Treatment (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1880), by Thomas Story Kirkbride (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family (revised edition; New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1945), by Edith M. Stern and Samuel W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposing the Modern Secret Way of Persecuting Christians in Order to Hush the Voice of Truth: Insane Hospitals are Inquisition Houses; All Heaven is Interested in This Crime (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Elizabeth T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane (1918), by American Medico-Psychological Association and National Committee for Mental Hygiene
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Des Maladies Mentales, Considérées Sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal (2 text volumes and an atlas, in French; Paris and London: J.-B. Ballière, 1838), by Etienne Esquirol (page images at HathiTrust)

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