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8 J. Psychiatry & L. [i] (1980)

handle is hein.journals/jpsych8 and id is 1 raw text is: SPRING 1980 THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND LAW I Notes on Contributors 3 Editors' Page The Use of Involuntary Commitment and Videotape in the Psychi- atric Treatment of an Incarcerated Offender: A Case Study 5 The rationale for the use of videotape in the treatment of a commit- ted mental patient is presented. The author also shows how legal red tape can delay the treatment of such patients. ) DIXIE MOORE, PH.D. Changes in the Legal Status of Mental Patients as Waivers of a Constitutional Right: The Problem of Consent 31 The change of status from involuntary to voluntary of committed mental patients has often taken place without the patients' informed consent. The author persuades us that often such changes are made in order to avoid judicial hearings for these patients. FREDERIC H. DECKER, PH.D. Patient Rights and Patient Chronicity 59 The authors argue that physicians, and not the judiciary, are better able to protect patients. They suggest that proliferation of patients' rights may contribute to patients' chronicity. ROGER PEELE, M.D. AND RICHARD R. PALMER, M.D. Effects of Psychiatric Legislation: An Example From Kansas 73 What has been the impact of new laws that have expanded the rights of mental patients? Although commitment proceedings declined, the treatment ofpatients has not been significantly altered. LOUIS L. FRYDMAN, PH.D. Book Section: Essays and Reviews 99 Living in Prison: The Ecology of Survival, by Hans Toch, reviewed by Loren Skeist, M.D. 109 Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility, by Herbert Fingarette and Ann Fingarette Hasse, reviewed by Erica Weinstein, M.D.

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