The Holy Legal War against State-Hospital Psychiatry

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Abstract
Some years ago in the Journal, Paul Freund wrote that the law was basically conservative and adapted slowly and cautiously to change and advances in knowledge and social policy.1 In recent years, psychiatrists in public service, particularly those serving in state hospitals and as state mental-health commissioners, have had reason to wonder if Professor Freund was accurate. Since 1970, there have been massive legal challenges in the courts alleging that conditions and practices in public mental hospitals and schools for the retarded are violative of the civil rights of patients on various constitutional grounds. Under the Federal Civil Rights . . .

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