...Matthew P. Dumont Phil Brown, The Transfer of Care: Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization and Its Aftermath (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985), 275 pp. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 548 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law perception of the elderly...

.... , B. Harrow, T. G. McGuire, and R. P. Ellis. 1991 . Medicare Payment to Psychiatric Facilities: Unfair and Inefficient? Health Affairs 10 ( 2 ): 124 -34. Davidson , R. J. 1992 . Community Care Networks: Cornerstone of Health Care Reform. Journal of American Health Policy 2 ( 3...

...Harvey G. Simmons Over the past two decades political and legal decisions have sharply curtailed psychiatric authority. One area in which psychiatric authority has been most limited is psychosurgery. This paper uses archival evidence from Ontario to show how psychiatrists ordered and administered...

... University 1984 Origins of the “Third Psychiatric Revolution”: The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 David A. Rochefort, Northeastern University Abstract. In recent decades the community mental health movement has achieved a dramatic reduction in the census...

...Richard G. Frank; Judith R. Lave Psychiatric hospitals and clinics are exempted from the Medicare prospective payment system. In this paper we examine the appropriateness of the DRG classification system for psychiatric patients and argue that, using this system as the basis of payment, two types...

... they may have limited effectiveness in the case of psychiatric services, specialty psychiatric hospitals and eligible psychiatric units of general hospitals are exempt from the system. A variety of payment options have been proposed to integrate these facilities into the PPS. Empirical studies...

...H. Steven Moffic Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Sue E. Estroff, Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 328 pp., $19.95 180 Journal of Health...

...Laurence R. Tancredi This paper addresses some of the ethical and legal issues involving the rights of psychiatric patients to refuse treatment. Particular attention is focused on two recently decided cases— Rogers v. Okins , and Rennie v. Klein —that deal with the rights of involuntarily committed...

...Hendrik Wagenaar; Dan A. Lewis This paper discusses changes in the social organization of mental institutionalization as they relate to developments in the wider social and economic environment. Despite dramatic changes in the system of inpatient psychiatric care during the last three decades...

... the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries to implement diagnostic systems based on the principle of specificity, psychiatric diagnoses remained undifferentiated, overlapping, and capacious. The need for medical legitimacy, compatibility with a biomedical model, and conditions that third...

... the role of the state; (3) the loss of faith in professional knowledge and the increasingly forceful voice of alternative and “psychiatric survivor” groups; (4) the problem of overload in pluralist and competitive democracy and, related to this, the ubiquitous search for consensus and frictionless...

... from the 1994 and 1995 National House-hold Survey of Drug Abuse (NHSDA) and find that 19 percent of welfare recipients meet the criteria for a DSM-III-R( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , third edition revised) psychiatric diagnosis. About the same percentage have used illicit...

... and quality of outpatient mental health care for a range of psychiatric disorders. Because people with severe and persisting mental disorders commonly require a higher-level medical expertise than is readily available within primary care as well as a complex array of social services, separate specialized...

...Richard Rumer This paper traces the development of theory and public awareness of mental health from 1900 to 1960, with particular stress on the rise of social psychiatric models and the impact of events in and around World War Two. The federal legislative history of the Community Mental Health...

... Scale. American Journal of Psychiatry 145 ( 10 ): 1237 -42. DuVal , Merlin K. 1988 . Changing Reimbursement Patterns and the Realities of Health Care Finance. In Prospective Payment and Psychiatric Care, ed. Donald J. Scherl, Joseph T. English, and Steven S. Sharfstein. Washington, DC...

... of the 1990s. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References American Psychiatric Association. 1987 . Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised. Washington, DC: APA. Anderson , D. , D. Reiss, and G. Hogarty. 1986 . Schizophrenia in the Family...

...Harvey Shwed Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Guest Editorial Social Policy and the Rights of the Mentally Ill: Time for Re-examination Harvey Shwed, Psychiatric Institute, Saint Michaels Medical Center Mental health...

... of these studies for future directions in the movement for patients’ rights are examined. Arguments about the right to refuse treatment-the most controversial of the rights of mental patients- highlight the differences among various strategies for change and reform of institutional psychiatric care...

... of existing data. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 References American Psychiatric Association. 1980 . Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Appelbaum , P. S. 1984 . Is the Need for Treatment Constitutionally...

... and Political Reality in Drug Refusal by Psychiatric Patients. Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 7 : 306 -315. Aviram , U. 1981 . Facilitating Deinstitutionalization: A Comparative Analysis. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 27 ( 1 ): 23 -32. Aviram , U...