Legal process through which an individual who is deemed to have symptoms of severe mental disorder loses freedoms
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Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
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78 works
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Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
Hide, LouiseDate: 2014- Books
Dangerousness : probability and prediction, psychiatry and public policy / edited by Christopher D. Webster, Mark H. Ben-Aron, Stephen J. Hucker.
Date: 1985- Books
Broadmoor revealed : Victorian crime and the lunatic asylum / by Mark Stevens.
Stevens, Mark (Archivist)Date: 2013- Books
Asylum, prison, and poorhouse : the writings and reform work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois / [editor] David L. Lightner.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.Date: 1999
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Plain directions for dealing with an insane patient / by J.M. Winn.
Winn, James M. (James Michell), 1808-1900.Date: 1872