tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13819604740795187822024-03-08T11:11:00.270-05:00Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric CarePsychiatrists Dinah Miller and Annette Hanson offer a thought-provoking and engaging account of the controversy surrounding involuntary psychiatric care in the United States. They bring the issue to life with first-hand accounts from patients, clinicians, advocates, and opponents.
Ultimately, Committed takes on the difficult question of psychiatry's role in preventing violence, suicide, and mass murder.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1381960474079518782.post-54803803462414698662017-03-19T23:34:00.000-04:002018-03-18T10:39:45.995-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">~Pete Earley, author of <i>Crazy: A Father's Search through American's Mental Health Madness</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This is actually a book on psychiatric ethics, but it is presented in a
disarming, journalistic style. The ethical tensions with which this
issue is loaded are unpacked in a clear, accessible way, articulating
not just the questions, but also offering sensible and realistic
conclusions.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">~ </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mark Komrad, M.D.</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">author of</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> You Need Help</span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Committed-Battle-over-Involuntary-Psychiatric/dp/1421420783/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To buy Committed on Amazon click here</span></a></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Washington Post</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Their stories, and those of others in the book, raise a
crucial question: For society at large, is forced treatment helpful or
harmful? Amazingly, the authors found no research in this area and are
left to conclude, “We don’t know if committing people to the hospital
prevents suicide and homicide or drives people away from getting care in
the future, perhaps leaving them even more vulnerable.” <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-heated-battle-over-when-to-commit-a-patient-involuntarily-to-psychiatric-care/2016/10/21/98c1ee8e-7e8a-11e6-8d0c-fb6c00c90481_story.html?utm_term=.2089f2c42a05">Full review</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">~Damon Tweedy, author of <i>Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflection on Race and Medicine. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;">The thing that strikes me most about this book is the care and
consideration that went into it. Miller and Hanson, psychiatrists, never
deride anyone for their views. They sat across the table from people
who think their profession is basically evil and held a civil,
thoughtful conversation. If there's an outrageous factual error they'll
mention it in passing with research to back them up, but otherwise
everyone is allowed to say their piece exactly as they'd like in a
non-confrontational environment.</span> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1623739498?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1"><span style="color: red;"><b>Full Review</b></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">~Kazen</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Hopkins Medicine</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Mental Health at it's Most Harrowing</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Many things can go wrong when a person with severe mental illness is
involuntarily committed, just as terrible things can happen—mass
shootings, for example—when such a person is not identified or
committed. It’s also possible for involuntary commitment to have a good
result, eventually, despite being a dramatic, emotionally harrowing and
potentially shattering event.</span><br />
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With <i>Committed</i>, Miller and Hanson prove themselves to be
extraordinarily thorough and even-handed reporters who cover an enormous
subject from every conceivable angle. <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/publications/hopkins_medicine_magazine/hopkins_reader/winter-2017/mental-health-at-its-most-harrowing"><span style="color: red;">Full Review</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">~Neil A. Grauer </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Psychiatric Times</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Candid and sensitive interviews with patients who have suffered from
the way in which commitment and involuntary treatment were deployed are
groundbreaking. For psychiatrists, who often develop feelings of
stewardship for our patients’ vulnerabilities, it will touch your heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The authors interview some other remarkable people: a patient who
was involuntarily committed who went on to become a psychiatrist; a
crisis intervention police officer who is followed into the field; and
the celebrated Judge Leifman in Dade County, Florida, who has
accomplished reform in mental health approaches for the incarcerated
that is becoming a model of its kind. <a href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/film-and-book-reviews/committed-battle-over-involuntary-psychiatric-care"><span style="color: red;">Full Review.</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">~Mark Komrad, M.D. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Journal of the America Academy of Psychiatry and the Law</i> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In <em>Committed: The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care</em>,
Dinah Miller, MD and Annette Hanson, MD do an excellent job of
presenting the views of multiple stakeholders. Despite my years as a
psychiatrist, I came away from reading this book with a much more
nuanced understanding of the benefits, complexities, and challenges of
involuntary psychiatric care.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">~Robert L. Trestman, M.D. </span><br />
<a href="http://jaapl.org/content/45/4/513"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">Full review</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Library Review Journal</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;">The bulk of the book then covers the realities of psychiatric commitment
in various settings and innovative criminal justice diversion programs.
Additional topics include an insightful
discussion of the impact of mental illness and involuntary treatment on
public safety concerns such as gun control, violence, and m</span>ass murder. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">~Antoinette Brinkman</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;">Choice Connect </span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Committed</i> is a very informative and
thought-provoking book. Miller (psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Univ. School
of Medicine) and Hanson (psychiatry, Univ. of Maryland School of
Medicine and Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine) provide readers
with clinical and legal information and patient and/or family anecdotes
on involuntary psychiatric treatment. There are so many excellent
sections that it is difficult to summarize in a review. In their
description of involuntary psychopharmacological treatment and/or
restraint, the authors present all sides of the issues related to
patients and family members, mental health professionals, legal aspects,
law enforcement, and emergency care professionals. The detailed, first
person patient accounts make the experience of involuntary psychiatric
care come alive. The reader follows accounts of other patient cases for
and against psychiatric treatment, and in these vignettes he or she
gains knowledge of the difficult sides of the issues pertaining to
psychiatric treatment against one’s will. The authors round out the
picture by providing readers with an excellent portrayal of how
professionals deal with the problem of involuntary treatment of acutely
and severely ill psychiatric patients. An overarching theme of this
significant book is that there is a lack of accessible, comprehensive
psychiatric care, which impacts both providers and patients.</span><br />
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<i>--M. C. Matteis, Regis College</i>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><i>Mad In America</i>:</span> <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/02/committed-battle-involuntary-psychiatric-care/"><span style="color: red;"><b>Full Review</b></span></a> </span><span style="color: white;">by Sandra Steingard, M.D. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><i>Clinical Psychiatry News</i>:</span> <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.mdedge.com/clinicalpsychiatrynews/article/116344/schizophrenia-other-psychotic-disorders/committed-takes"><span style="color: red;"><b>Full Review</b></span></a></span> <span style="color: white;">by Rebecca Twersky-Kengmana, M.D. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Re</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">ading the End blog:</span> <span style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://readingtheend.com/2016/11/14/review-committed-dinah-miller-annette-hanson/"><span style="color: red;">Full Review</span></a></b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490186641198_7697" style="color: black;">Links to more reviews:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Weill Cornell Medical News:<span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span></i><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2017/05/help-unwanted"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Full Review</span></span></a></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Lloyd Sederer's review on</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Psychology Today's </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">website</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">: </span></span></i><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/therapy-it-s-more-just-talk/201707/committed-the-battle-over-involuntary-psychiatric-care"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Full Review</span></span></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com