Psychiatric authority and social problems: A history of fears and expectations in 20th- and 21st-century America
Published online on November 11, 2025
Abstract
History of Psychiatry, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 58-74, March 2026.
In the 1970s, activist attorneys took on what they saw as a major issue in American society – the authority of psychiatrists to lock up hundreds of thousands of people against their will in state psychiatric hospitals in violation of their civil ...
In the 1970s, activist attorneys took on what they saw as a major issue in American society – the authority of psychiatrists to lock up hundreds of thousands of people against their will in state psychiatric hospitals in violation of their civil ...