Download or read book Law Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill written by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Psychiatry and Law and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill written by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill written by GAP Committee on Psychiatry and the Law and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft Act Governing Hospiltalization of the Mentally Ill written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws governing hospitalization of the mentally ill formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and the Law Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Back to the Asylum written by John Q. LaFond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "law and order" in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual. This compelling book recounts how and why mental health law is being reshaped to safeguard society rather than mentally ill citizens. The authors, both experts in the field, convincingly demonstrate how rapidly changing American values ignited two very different visions of justice for the mentally ill. They argue that during the "Liberal era"-- from 1960 to 1980-- Americans staunchly supported civil liberties for all, particularly for disadvantaged citizens like the mentally ill. Also, criminal law provided ample opportunities for mentally ill offenders to avoid criminal punishment for their crimes, and restrictive civil commitment laws made it difficult to hospitalize the mentally disabled against their will. During the "Neoconservative era"--from 1980 on-- however, the public demanded new laws as a result of the rise in crime and the increasing number of homeless in communities. These changes make it much more difficult for mentally ill offenders to escape criminal blame and far easier to put disturbed citizens into hospitals against their will. Back to the Asylum accurately describes how this abrupt shift in from protecting individual rights to protecting the community has had a major impact on the mentally ill. It examines these legal changes in their broader social context and offers a provocative analysis of these law reforms. Finally, this timely work forecasts the future of mental health law and policy as America enters the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Laws Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill written by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill written by United States. Public Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Health Centers Construction Act Extension written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Illness and Due Process written by Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Special Committee to Study Commitment Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill written by United States. Federal Security Agency. Library and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Almost a Revolution written by Paul S. Appelbaum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doubts about the reality of mental illness and the benefits of psychiatric treatment helped foment a revolution in the law's attitude toward mental disorders over the last 25 years. Legal reformers pushed for laws to make it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them when they committed criminal acts. Advocates of reform promised vast changes in how our society deals with the mentally ill; opponents warily predicted chaos and mass suffering. Now, with the tide of reform ebbing, Paul Appelbaum examines what these changes have wrought. The message emerging from his careful review is a surprising one: less has changed than almost anyone predicted. When the law gets in the way of commonsense beliefs about the need to treat serious mental illness, it is often put aside. Judges, lawyers, mental health professionals, family members, and the general public collaborate in fashioning an extra-legal process to accomplish what they think is fair for persons with mental illness. Appelbaum demonstrates this thesis in analyses of four of the most important reforms in mental health law over the past two decades: involuntary hospitalization, liability of professionals for violent acts committed by their patients, the right to refuse treatment, and the insanity defense. This timely and important work will inform and enlighten the debate about mental health law and its implications and consequences. The book will be essential for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, lawyers, and all those concerned with our policies toward people with mental illness.
Download or read book Committed written by Dinah Miller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Committed, psychiatrists Dinah Miller and Annette Hanson offer a thought-provoking and engaging account of the controversy surrounding involuntary psychiatric care in the United States. They bring the issue to life with first-hand accounts from patients, clinicians, advocates, and opponents. Looking at practices such as seclusion and restraint, involuntary medication, and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy--all within the context of civil rights--
Download or read book Psychiatry Law and Ethics written by Amnon Carmi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prostitution of the German psychiatric profession into a Nazi inquisitional tool was a major factor producing the total degradation of German medicine and moral ity. Its low point was its psychiatrists killing the patients they were sworn to care for, and its other physicians performing inhuman experiments on patients they were pledged to treat. In America also, psychiatry has been performing some of the functions of an In quisition: injuring innocents, both patients and dissenters, and exculpating crimi nals, terrorists especially. Innocents are being injured both in and out of psychiatric hospitals. The in creased fragmentation of care, the augmentation of its discontinuities, and assign ing the responsibility for organizing it to non-medical managers are some of the fac tors worsening the treatment results of our hospitals. Wrongful deaths, due largely to the specialty's intoxication with drugs while ignoring the importance of common human decency, have become a national scandal.
Download or read book Report on the Mental Health System and Laws of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Task Force on Mental Health Laws and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
