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Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 25 Oct 2023 00:08:58
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness

Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness"
English | ISBN: 0231210256 | 2023 | 416 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and advocates have sought to expand the use of conservatorships, a legal tool used to force someone deemed “gravely disabled,” or unable to meet their needs for food, clothing, or shelter as a result of mental illness, to take medication and be placed in a locked facility. At the same time, civil liberties and disability rights groups have seized on cases like that of Britney Spears to argue that conservatorships are inherently abusive.



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