This overview delineates trends in mental health law beginning with early law and proceeding to the present time. The authors discuss such recent mental-health-related judicial decisions and statutory changes as class actions, the right to treatment, admission statuses, classification of mentally ill and mentally retarded patients, involuntary commitment, and patient rights.
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McGarry et al. (1973) studied this question.