Chapter 10.Civil Commitment
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Civil commitment—that is, the involuntary hospitalization of psychiatric patients—occurs within a complex clinical, legal, and regulatory framework. Modern procedures for civil commitment arose in the mid-twentieth century in response to concerns about patients with mental illness, who historically had little say in their hospitalization or treatment and who often were warehoused indefinitely in asylums. In this chapter, I review the evolution of laws and clinical practice around involuntary hospitalization, as well as the more recent development of alternative forms of civil commitment, such as mandatory outpatient treatment and commitment of sex offenders.
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