Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed
dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that treatment is safe …

The body can be restrained for long periods using psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric patients in
the 1970s started to fight against such practices, used primarily on people considered …

From jails to hospitals to the analyst's couch, the venues of psychiatry have shifted amid
debate over the nature of mental illness: is it psychosocial or biological? Andrew Scull …

Explicitly coercive measures are sometimes necessary in the care and treatment of
psychiatric patients. The author describes how use of such measures is not antithetical to …

Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and
interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in …

Twenty years ago, legal interventions and dramatic advancements in psychopharmacology
provided the impetus for a mass exodus from public mental health institutions to community …

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN US PRISONS| 317 symptoms of
illness or provoke recurrence. 7 Suicides occur disproportionately more often in segregation …

The United States has the highest rate of adult incarceration among the developed
countries, with 2.2 million currently in jails and prisons. Those with mental disorders have …

There are more than a million prison and jail inmates in the United States who have mental
illness. As funding for State Hospitals has decreased, funding for needed community …

For a myriad of reasons the criminal justice system has become the de facto mental health
system. This book explores how and why this is the case. Sensationalized cases often drive …