One of the most traditional, longstanding, and essential methods of providing the proper
level of psychiatric treatment for severely disturbed jail inmates with serious mental illness …

The ethics of compulsive treatment (CT) is a medical, social and legal discussion that
reemerged after the ratification by 181 countries of the 2007 United Nations Convention on …

Severely mentally ill jail detainees require an adequate spectrum of mental health services
during detainment. For some this means a limited period of treatment in a mental hospital …

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been used for decades for the treatment of mental
illness. Despite its proven efficacy, ECT is rarely offered to individuals with psychiatric …

Many states authorize involuntary psychiatric care on the basis of grave disability, a legal
standard often defined as a person's inability to provide for basic needs because of mental …