Restraint versus treatment: seclusion as discussed in the Boston State Hospital case.
The recent Boston State Hospital case in Massachusetts produced, among other results, a decision that highlights areas of gross conceptual nonalignment between law and psychiatry on the subject of seclusion. The author presents a critique of aspects of the decision that have important implications for the psychiatric use of seclusion and explores related problem areas in the relationship between law and psychiatry.
D001900:Boston; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012149:Restraint, Physical