A 35-year-old single, male attorney in private practice was referred for psychiatric treatment
from another psychiatrist, accompanied by his parents. Over the preceding 3 years, the …

The past few decades have witnessed the steady development of a mental health
jurisprudence dedicated to the preservation of human rights. Self-determination and …

Objective Adversarial hearings in hospital commitment and de novo treatment proceedings,
or court hearings, delay psychiatric treatment in many jurisdictions. In Massachusetts, the …

Historically, individuals with mental illness have had more limited rights to refuse treatment
than those without mental illness. is was primarily the case for patients committed to …

they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them
afraid—let all people walk every one in the name of his god and we will walk in the name of …

In response to a call for revision of the current procedures for involuntary treatment in
Massachusetts, this commentary explores the ethics basis for such institutional reform. In the …

A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis attempts to discern the role of legal proceedings,
lawyers and judges in producing therapeutic or anti‐therapeutic consequences. This paper …

Tn he Mental Health Act of Ontario,'as amended in the 1980s, tries to strike a balance
between the need to treat a mentally ill patient and the need to preserve the civil liberties of …

Nonemergent forcible medication is a controversial procedure that has received somewhat
less study in acute hospitals and in states where a simple in-house" treatment-driven" …

The case is presented of a young and violent chronic schizophrenic patient whose
symptoms respond to antipsychotic medication but who was recorded, at a time when he …