title: Treatment of the mentally ill: legal advocacy enters the second generation.
abstract: In the past, the legal and medical perspectives on issues relating to compulsory treatment focused on the individual's interest in liberty on the one hand and the physician's authority to treat on the other. Neither of these perspectives addresses the contemporary realities of treatment of chronically mentally ill people in the United States. The author suggests an emerging advocacy perspective that focuses on the quality of treatment.
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D026706:Paternalism; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D028701:Patient Rights; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility; D035521:Supreme Court Decisions; D014481:United States