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The processes of life, the make-up of the human organism, who can fully understand these miracles? ... What is happening to you now is what should happen to any normal healthy human organism contemplating the actions of the forces of evil, the working of the principle of destruction. You are being made sane, you are being made healthy.'

The Supreme Court decision O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975) has been widely interpreted to assert that dangerousness is a constitutional requirement for civil commitment. This interpretation is a misreading of the decision, which actually addressed the conditions disallowing indefinite, involuntary custodial confinement and not the requirements for an initial commitment. An excessive reliance on da...

Although numerous discourses relating to the insanity plea are to be found in the psychiatric and legal literature, there are but few empirical studies that address even the fundamental issue of its incidence and success rate.! Similarly, to the authors' knowledge, there is but one study concerned with the attitudes of individuals toward the insanity plea; that study was a survey made of lawyer...

This paper is an attempt to pass on to others the encouragement gained by a visit recently paid to selected places in Belgium and Holland to see some of the methods there employed for the care of mental patients boarded out in the community. The expenses of the journey were generously met by a donor, whose anonymity concealed, we are aware, a very active concern for mental welfare work, who thu...

Jaspers' concept of limit situations seems particularly appropriate not only to elucidate outstanding existential situations in general, but also basic preconditions for the occurrence of mental disorders. For this purpose, the concept is first explained in Jaspers' sense and then related to an 'existential vulnerability' of mentally ill persons that makes them experience even inconspicuous eve...

The practice of psychiatry, the severity of some mental illnesses, the rights of mental patients, and the available resources for evaluation and treatment of mentally ill persons all pose significant challenges for the involved parties, including patients, practitioners, institutions, legislatures, and social systems. Making the system work at all inescapably creates many problems of access to ...

We assess the degree to which the mentally ill who would have been in mental hospitals in years past have been trans‐institutionalized into prisons and jails. We also assess the contribution of deinstitutionalization to growth in the U.S. prison population. We find no evidence of trans‐institutionalization for any demographic groups for the period between 1950 and 1980. However, for the twenty‐...

This paper presents a conceptual approach for leading various types of groups of chronically mentally ill patients. Although these groups may have a concrete, task-oriented purpose, with skillful leadership they also function as psychotherapy groups. The developmental deficits in ego functions, object relations, and social skills that severely impair such groups can be compensated by non-interp...

Mental disorders are associated with many difficulties in the activities of daily living, work, relationships and family, and they determine high social and economic costs that represent an important public health problem. The literature has shown that children of parents with mental disorders grow up in environments that are potentially harmful to their mental health and are at risk of neglect...