Committed : The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care /

"Every mass shooting in America raises the question of whether there would be fewer such shootings if people who have mental illness were locked away. Of course, some perpetrators were already being treated when they acted, and some never gave any sign that they might be dangerous before they a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Miller, Dinah (Autor), Hanson, Annette (Autor)
Otros Autores: Earley, Pete (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychiatric ethics.
Mental health services > Moral and ethical aspects.
Involuntary treatment.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > General.
Internement (Psychiatrie)
Psychiatres > Deontologie.
Traitement non volontaire (Therapeutique)
Services de sante mentale > Aspect moral.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de sante mentale > Soins > Aspect moral.
Public Policy > legislation & jurisprudence
Psychotherapy > ethics
Mentally Ill Persons
Mental Health Services > ethics
Commitment of Mentally Ill
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention.
Mentally ill > Care > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Pete Earley
  • Before we get started
  • Part I. The patients : Eleanor and the case against involuntary hospitalization
  • Lily and the case for civil commitment
  • Part II. The battleground : In favor of involuntary treatments : E. Fuller Torrey and the Treatment Advocacy Center ; Ronald Honberg and the National Alliance on Mental Illness ; Paul Summergrad and the American Psychiatric Association
  • Against involuntary treatments : Citizens Commission on Human Rights ; Celia Brown, Janet Foner, and MindFreedom International ; Daniel Fisher and the National Empowerment Center ; Ira Burnim and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • Part III. Civil rights : Eleanor, Lily and the process of civil commitment
  • Christina Schumacher and the history of civil commitment laws
  • Part IV. The hospital : Scott Davis on law enforcement and crisis intervention teams
  • Leonard Skivorski and the emergency department
  • Eleanor's hospital experience
  • Ray DePaulo and inpatient psychiatry at a university hospital
  • Steven Sharfstein, Bruce Hershfield and free-standing psychiatric hospitals
  • Annette Hanson and the use of seclusion and restraint
  • Anthony Kelly and involuntary medications
  • Jim and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy
  • Part V. Involuntary outpatient commitment : 15. Marsha and outpatient civil commitment
  • Outpatient commitment on the books
  • Jack Lesser and mental health courts
  • Part VI. A danger to self or others : Dan, guns and mental illness
  • Bryan Stanley, violence and psychiatric illness
  • Amy and involuntary treatment for suicide prevention
  • Will forcing treatment on people with psychiatric disorders prevent mass murders?
  • Part VII. Future directions : Transforming the battleground.

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