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President Bush Executive order Olmstead decision, Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010619
Conflict at the Psych Ward San Francisco Bay Guardian 9/4/02 http://www.sfbg.com/36/49/news_psychward.html healthscout Cases of ADHD on the Rise http://www.healthscout.com/template.asp?page=newsdetail&ap=1&id=509179 worldlawdirect.com Community College Week ccweek.com Vol 15, No 2 Sept 2, 2002 Cover Story "Mental Cases?" by Sarah Stewart Taylor. Not archived Berkeley Center for Mental Health Services Research http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cmhsr/ and their links NIMH National Institute of Mental Health CIMH California Institute of Mental Health NMHA National Mental Health Alliance NAMI National Alliance of Mentaly Ill APA Psychiatric news
APA, NAMI, NMHA Call Upon States to Preserve Access to Psychotropic Medications
News article (May 16 2003) Legal News Competency Evaluations [of elderly] Start With Five Senses
FAMILY MOTIVES in requesting an evaluation. My friend Tim's brother requested many times an evaluation of their uncle, 80+, wanting his house. Remember Shirley Allen? About.com Roby Ridge, or the Revenge of Shirley Allen http://civilliberty.about.com/library/blroby.htm?terms=shirley+allen
schizophrenia.com psychiatry24x7.com Eugenics Archive Continuing Medical Education, Inc Includes mental health and lists psychotropic drug manufacturers Zealots' pages Psychlaws Roger Torrey's Treatment Advocacy Center and Final Solution Sally Satel
The Right to Refuse Mental health Treatment - Bruce J. Winick,
American Psychological Assn, publishers.
A big lie - this book is about getting patients to sign papers, signing away their lives and the shirts off their backs and keeping the hospital from being sued. Don't sign! Remember all mental health treatment is punitive in nature and purpose, Big Brother, social control.
DSM-IV-TR handbooks for those who frame us
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill Robert Whitaker Historical perspective of involuntary mental health treatment. It's worse in other countries but this book only covers the issue in America.
Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital Alex Beam No more Federal gravy train. McLean Hospital, Boston, closes.
Women of the Asylum: Voices from behind the Walls, 1840-1945 Jeffrey L Geller, Maxine Harris Involuntary incarceration for life not for crime or illness but for disobedience.
Beyond Bedlam: Contemporary Women Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out Jeanine Grobe
Beyond Bedlam: Poems Written Out of Mental Distress Ken Smith, Matthew Sweeney (editors)
Dr. Rissmiller is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, School of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08002 ([email protected]) Mr. Rissmiller attends Harvard College in Cambridge MA.
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3 Fanon F: The Wretched of the Earth. New York, Grove Press, 1963
4 Lessing DM: The Golden Notebook. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1962
5 Goffman E: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. New York, Anchor Books, 1961
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7 Robinson P (director): Asylum. Kino Video, 1972
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10 Szasz TS: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement. New York, Harper and Row, 1970
11 Leary T: A letter from Timothy Leary, Ph.D., July 17, 1961. Available at www.szasz.com/leary.html
12 Hubbard LR: Crime and psychiatry, June 23, 1969. Available at http://freedom. lronhubbard.org/page080.htm
13 Kesey K: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York, Viking Press, 1962
14 Chamberlin J: The ex-patients' movement: where we've been and where we're going. Journal of Mind and Behavior 11:323�336,1990
15 Appelbaum PS: Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change. New York, Oxford University Press, 1994
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18 Bristo M: From Privileges to Rights: People Labeled With Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves. Washington, DC, National Council on Disability, Jan 20, 2000
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Involuntary mental health detention still exists, depicted in entertainment media as well as in nonfiction. Name the movies andplays in which:
1. Relatives try to commit him for his inheritance.
2. Relatives try to commit her for her inheritance.
3. Only as a vegetable would he conform quietly to ward routine.
4. Rejected suitor tries to commit his intended's father in order to compel her to marry him.
5. She knows that women who displease their men face a one-way trip to the snake pit.
6. Relatives try to commit him out of their way for trivial reasons.
7. Her aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a shameful family secret.
8. Santa? Bellvue?
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