refusing care refusing care forced treatment and the rights of the mentally ill
elyn r. saks
the university of chicago press chicago and london Elyn R. Saks is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at University of Southern California Law School and a research clinical associate at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the author of Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law and Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2002 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2002 Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saks, Elyn R., 1955– Refusing care : forced treatment and the rights of the mentally ill / Elyn R. Saks. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-226-73397-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Involuntary treatment. 2. Mental illness—Treatment. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Commitment of Mentally Ill—United States. 2. Mental Competency—United States. 3. Mental Disorders—diagnosis—United States. 4. Restraint, Physical—United States. 5. Treatment Refusal—United States. wm 33 aa1 s27r 2002]
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