Book Review: Mental Disorder,Work Disability,and the Law

See Freud S. , Civilization and Its Discontents, ed. Strachey J. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1st American ed., 1962): At 48.

de Grazia S. , Of Time, Work, and Leisure (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1962): At 41.

Olshansky S. Unterberger L. , “The Meaning of Work and Its Implications for the Ex-Hospital Patient,” Mental Hygiene, 47 (1963): 141 (original emphasis).

See Milazzo-Sayre L. Henderson M. Manderscheid R. , “Serious and Severe Mental Illness and Work: What Do We Know?,” in Bonnie R.J. Monahan J. , eds., Mental Disorder, Work Disability, and the Law (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997): At 18–19.

Yelin E. Cistrenas M. , “Employment Patterns among Persons With and Without Mental Conditions,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 47.

See N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 52:27E–21 to −27 (West 1998) (repealed 1994). Certain duties were transferred to Office of the Public Defender. See N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 52:27E-50 to −65 (West 1998).

See, for example, Weidenfeller v. Kidulis, 380 F. Supp. 445, 451 (E.D. Wis. 1971); and Wyatt v. Stickney, 344 F. Supp. 387, 402 (M.D. Ala. 1972), aff'd sub nom. Wyatt v. Aderholt, 503 F.2d 1305 (5th Cir. 1974).

See Souder v. Brennan, 367 F. Supp. 808 (D.D.C. 1973).

See Schindenwolf v. Klein, No. L41293-75 P.W. (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. 1976), reprinted in Perlin M.L. , Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal (Charlottesville: Michie, Vol. 2, 1989): § 6.23, at 509–19; compare Davis v. Balson, 461 F. Supp. 842 (N.D. Ohio 1978) (rejecting affirmative right to theory, but finding that countertherapeutic work assignments violated the right to treatment). The theory underlying Schindenwolf is set out in Perlin M.L. , “The Right to Participate in Voluntary, Therapeutic, Compensated Work Programs as Part of the Right to Treatment: A New Theory in the Aftermath of Souder,” Seton Hall Law Review, 7 (1976): 298–339.

See National League of Cities v. Usery, 426 U.S. 833 (1976), overruled by Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985); see generally, Perlin (1989), supra note 9, §§ 6.15–16, at 478–88.

See, for example, the few recent cases reported on in Perlin M.L. , Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal (Charlottesville: Michie, Cum. Supp., 1997): §§ 6.10-.20, at 283–85.

A law review article has not been published on this topic in at least the last eight years. See id.

Bonnie R.J. , “Work Disability and the Fabric of Mental Health Law: An Introduction,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 1, 2.

Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101–213 (1994).

See Milstein B. Rubenstein L. Cyr R. , “The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Breathtaking Promise for Persons with Mental Disabilities,” Clearinghouse Review, 25 (1991): At 1240.

Jenkins K. , “Spotlight Finds Hoyer,” Washington Post, May 28, 1990, at D1, as cited in Ackourey K. , “Insuring Americans with Disabilities: How Far Can Congress Go to Protect Traditional Practices?,” Emory Law Journal, 40 (1991): At 1183 n.1.

“Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: Summary and Analysis,” Special Supplement (BNA), at S-5 (1990), as cited in Ackourey , supra note 16, at 1183 n.2 (statement by bill's sponsors). See also, for example, Law S. , “The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: Burden on Business or Dignity for the Disabled?,” Duquense Law Review, 30 (1991): 99–114 (describing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a “solid and positive step toward making this country a better nation”).

Perlin , supra note 11, § 6.44A, at 297 (ADA stands as Congress's “most innovative attempt to address the pervasive problem of discrimination against mentally and physically handicapped citizens”); see generally Perlin M.L. , “‘Make Promises by the Hour’: Sex, Drugs, the ADA, and Psychiatric Hospitalization,” DePaul Law Review, 46 (1997): 947–85.

See Perlin M.L. , “‘Where the Winds Hit Heavy on the Borderline’: Mental Disability Law, Theory and Practice, ‘Us’ and ‘Them’,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 31, no. 3 (1998): (in press); see also Perlin M.L. , “The ADA and Persons with Mental Disabilities: Can Sanist Attitudes Be Undone?,” Journal of Law & Health, 8 (1993–94): 24–45.

Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 423(d)(1) (1987); see generally Pryor E.S. , “Mental Disabilities and the Disability Fabric,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 153.

Ravitch F. , “Balancing Fundamental Disability Policies: The Relationship Between the Americans with Disabilities Act and Social Security Disability,” Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty, 1 (1994): 240–51.

Bonnie , supra note 13, at 4.

The classic treatment is Allport G. , The Nature of Prejudice (Garden City: Doubleday, 1958). For an important new, and different, perspective, see Young-Bruehl E. , The Anatomy of Prejudices (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996). See also Perlin M.L. , “On ‘Sanism’,” Southern Methodist University Law Review, 46 (1992): 373–407.

See Bonnie , supra note 13, at 7.

See Milazzo-Sayre Henderson Manderscheid , supra note 4, at 18–19.

See id. at 18 tbl.1.

See id. at 21.

See Yelin Cistrenas , supra note 5, at 44.

Estroff S. , “‘No Other Way to Go’: Pathways to Disability Income Application among Persons with Severe, Persistent Mental Illness,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 94.

Id. at 95.

Id. at 96.

Strauss J. Davidson L. , “Mental Disorders, Work, and Choice,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 127.

See Warner R. Polak P. , “Economic Opportunities and Disincentives for People with Mental Illness,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 147.

See Hall L.L. , “Making the ADA Work for People with Psychiatric Disabilities,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 273–76.

Bonnie R.J. Monahan J. , “Epilogue,” in Bonnie Monahan , eds., supra note 4, at 299–301.