Judicial Commitment of Mental Patients in Dallas County
Description:
Since mental illness has legal as well as medical aspects, it is the purpose of this thesis to consider one part of the relationship between the courts, the mentally ill person, and the state hospital. This part is concerned with the problem of how mentally ill persons are selected and committed by legal proceedings in the state of Texas for treatment in a mental hospital. This paper is concerned with the problem of how mentally ill persons are selected and committed by legal proceedings in the…
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Date:
January 1954
Creator:
Rhodes, Albert L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries