Wexler uses key selections from relevant reserch, clinical case studies, and theoretical perspectives to look at law-related psychological dysfunction and therapeutic aspects of the legal sytems.

"This interesting and valuable book...has a wholeness that derives from its thesis that mental health law can have either therapeutic or antitherapeutic effects."
- Contemporary Psychology

"David Wexler has written a remarkable and most creative book in the field of law and psychiatry....It will be of great interest and of educational promise to others working in the field of mental health law."
- Contemporary Psychiatry