With its short and lively case history, basic documents, and expert commentary, this text is an ideal teaching tool for all who want to evaluate for themselves how society deals with the mentally disordered in the criminal justice process. A chronological account of Stan Stress's important case and his obsessive belief in a Vietnam/sports conspiracy is interlaced with evaluations by lawyers, psychologists, and psychiatrists and with the authors' critiques and questions about key issues in the interface between law and psychiatry. More Reviews and Recommendations

GRANT H. MORRIS is both Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego, Medical School.ALLEN C. SNYDER is Associate Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law.

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