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Mental health laws

Here are entered works on laws dealing with the care of the mentally ill, and people with mental disabilities. Works on the legal concept of insanity are entered under the heading Insanity (Law).

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• Mental health
• Mental illness
• Mentally ill
• People with mental disabilities

• Mental health laws -- Great Britain
• Mental health laws -- United States
• Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention

• Law and mental illness
• Mental disability law
• Mental health -- Law and legislation
• Mental illness and law
• Mental illness -- Law and legislation
• Mentally ill -- Legal status, laws, etc.
• People with mental disabilities -- 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)
• 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

• 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)
• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)
• The Travels and Experience of Miss Phebe B. Davis of Barnard, Windsor County, Vt. (Syracuse: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1860), by Phebe B. Davis (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)

• Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ten Days in a Mad-House (with miscellaneous sketches "Trying to be a Servant," and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave"), by Nellie Bly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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

• WHO QualityRights Tool Kit: Assessing and Improving Quality and Human Rights in Mental Health and Social Care Facilities (with supplementary documents; c2012), by World Health Organization (PDF with commentary at who.int)
• Happiness and Health (Mountain View, CA et al.: Pacific Press Pub. Assn., c1950), by Harold Shryock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mental Health Ministry of the Local Church (1972), by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Help Yourself to Happiness (New York and London: Whittlesey House, 1937), by David Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: The NICE Guideline on Clinical Management and Service Guidance (Leicester: British Psychological Society, 2007), by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) (HTML at NIH)
• Nerves and Common Sense (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1925), by Annie Payson Call
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Freedom of Life (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1924), by Annie Payson Call
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text
• As a Matter of Course, by Annie Payson Call
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Mental Hygiene (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863), by Isaac Ray
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Nerves and the War (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1918), by Annie Payson Call
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On Vital Reserves: The Energies of Men; The Gospel of Relaxation (New York: Henry Holt and Co., c1911), by William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power Through Repose (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1905), by Annie Payson Call
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Occupation Therapy: A Manual for Nurses (Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1915), by William Rush Dunton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Worry and Nervousness: or, The Science of Self-Mastery (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1914), by William S. Sadler (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies (1936), by Edward Bach (frame-dependent HTML at edwardbach.org)

• Medical Behavioral Science: A Selected Bibliography of Cultural Anthropology, Social Psychology, and Sociology in Medicine (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1963), by Marion Pearsall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mental Health (full run of British journal, with some predecessors and successors, 1940-1971) (full serial archives)
• L'Hygiène Mentale (partial serial archives)
• The Australian E-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health (full serial archives)

• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at surgeongeneral.gov)
• Institutional Racism and Community Competence (1982), ed. by Oscar A. Barbarin, Paul R. Good, O. Martin Pharr, and Judith A. Siskind (page images at HathiTrust)

• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Community Members Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Rescue Workers Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents Can Do (2013), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)

• Communicational Structure: Analysis of a Psychotherapy Transaction (Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, c1973), by Albert E. Scheflen (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Psychotherapy and Personality Change: Co-Ordinated Research Studies in the Client-Centered Approach (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954), ed. by Carl R. Rogers and Rosalind F. Dymond (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nature of Civilization: A Psychological Analysis (1977), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• Be Your Own Therapist: Psychology Self Help (ca. 1995), by Thayer White (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• To Love is To Be Happy With, by Barry Neil Kaufman (HTML at option.org)
• You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought, by Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)
• Subjectivity and Objectivity: Further Aspects of Psychological Growth (1974), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• The Secret of the Ages (New York: R. Collier, 1926), by Robert Collier (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Social Order, Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Andrew T. Scull (HTML at UC Press)

• HIV and Psychiatry: Training and Resource Manual (first edition, ca.1997), ed. by Marie-Josée Brouillette and Kenneth Citron (frame-dependent PDF files in Canada)
• HIV Mental Health for the 21st Century (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), ed. by Mark G. Winiarski (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• 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)

• Plankton Dreams: What I Learned in Special-Ed (London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Community Members Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Rescue Workers Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents Can Do (2013), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.