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Court-mandated treatment: dilemmas for hospital psychiatry.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  1155629     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The authors present clinical material to illustrate the special treatment and management problems posed by different types of mentally ill offenders; they suggest that court-mandated hospital treatment is often destructive and unrelated to the needs of the patient, the community, and the mental institution. The failure to create new kinds of institutions, combining modalities derived from the hospital and correctional systems, is traced to poor communication among the disciplines involved. The "mentally ill offender" is caught in the interplay of these systems and is consequently both their victim and victimizer.
Authors:
R Liss; A Frances
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The American journal of psychiatry     Volume:  132     ISSN:  0002-953X     ISO Abbreviation:  Am J Psychiatry     Publication Date:  1975 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1975-11-08     Completed Date:  1975-11-08     Revised Date:  2004-11-17    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0370512     Medline TA:  Am J Psychiatry     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  924-7     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Antisocial Personality Disorder / therapy
Attitude
Chronic Disease
Commitment of Mentally Ill*
Communication
Criminal Psychology*
Female
Forensic Psychiatry*
Hospitals, Psychiatric*
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Jurisprudence*
Male
Malingering
Mental Disorders / therapy
New York
Prisons
Self Mutilation
Therapeutic Community

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