In the 1960s, the interface between psychiatry and law mushroomed as courts defined the
civil rights of psychiatric patients. At the CMHC, Yale psychiatry faculty collaborated with the …

Psychiatry1 and law are interdependent to an extent exceeded by few other pairs of
professions. As a result, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals (" MHPs") can …

Abstract Discusses" right-to-treatment" suits and their growth in number. Although the
Supreme Court has been careful to protect public officials in its first case, litigation continues …

Long before a judge becomes in-volved, diversion from the criminal justice to the mental
health system should be arranged for an individual with mental illness charged with such …

Several states are changing legislation and treatment programs for mentally ill offenders
without knowing how current laws and programs operate. To address this problem the …

The major current issues facing state and local forensic mental health programs are
presented in this paper. Debates over forensic patients' rights and the insanity defense are …

There are two major areas in which a psychiatric clinician must have a general
understanding of the relationship of mental health to American law. The first devolves from …

As the law/mental health field has expanded and matured in the last 20 years, the
sophistication required by mental health professionals in order to respond appropriately to …

Background Because of the ability of courts to commit mentally ill offenders and defendants
to Pennsylvania's single maximum security state hospital (for evaluation and treatment of …

Desa of the last decade or two have increased regulations and guidelines governing the
practice of medicine that far eclipsed those of the past century. The result, a sharp rise in …