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When Mental Health Care Becomes Control

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Retired scientist

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You can only be committed against your will if you are a threat to yourself or others. Every psychiatrist's nightmare is the patient he knows is dangerous, but involuntary committal laws are so strict their hands are tied. Then something awful happens, and people blame the physician. Involuntary commitment laws need to be loosened, not tightened, and psychiatrists need more leeway to admit dangerous patients.

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