Word: dangerousâ
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Some states empower a doctor to order commitment to a mental hospital when he thinks a patient dangerous???at least long enough to subject him to a thorough examination by psychiatrists. Other states insist that the individual commit himself voluntarily, that his family commit him or that the courts remand him into hospital care. In such situations, the doctor can only try to persuade, though the psychotic is not notably amenable to having himself locked up. Nor, often, is his family, who may still regard mental illness as a shameful smirch and resist formal commitment to an institution until...