for dorthea dix and antonin artaud

civil commitment process
police
hearing

dramatic decline

two people can go down to courthouse and begin the process of community investigation

county mental health

low level
standard of proof


probable cause
of mental illness

for civil court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_commitment

if they believe that a person needs to be committed

they can be held in ERs for days


there are not enough beds

then they are transported in police cars far away---

we have knowledge increase
and decline of services


what irony


i ask if a family might try to frivolously incarcerate other family members
for personal distaste or purposes of a will (or other humiliations)

is there room for that in the law?  (by which i mean the oregon local law)

he says there is

there is
very little frivolous commitment

backlar shook her head at me.  i do not know for sure what it meant.

lots of protections for civil liberties
so says bloom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Dix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud

and the thorazine blues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine

and chief bromden


there will be a new state mental hospital in the future