Restraint versus treatment: seclusion as discussed in the Boston State Hospital case
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 137 (6) , 718-719
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.6.718
Abstract
The recent Boston State Hospital case in Massachusetts produced, among other results, a decision that highlights areas of gross conceptual nonalignment between law and psychiatry on the subject of seclusion. The author presents a critique of aspects of the decision that have important implications for the psychiatric use of seclusion and explores related problem areas in the relationship between law and psychiatry.Keywords
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