title: The legal restraints on psychiatric care.
abstract: The role of the psychiatrist and his capacity to exercise professional discretion are rapidly reaching a new low. Under the semantic banners of consumerism, civil rights, the right to receive treatment, and constitutionality, ever increasing numbers of therapeutic decisions have become subjects for legislative concern, judicial involvement, and governmental regulation.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States