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Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment: Social Problems & Social Issues

Autor James A. Holstein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1993
This book analyzes how hearing participants construct and organize arguments that are legally, psychiatrically, and practically accountable. It argues that commitment decisions orient to the "tenability" of situations that patients pose as alternatives to hospitalization.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780202304496
ISBN-10: 0202304493
Pagini: 223
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Social Problems & Social Issues

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

James A. Holstein is Associate Professor of Sodology, Marquette University. His research brings an ethnomethodologically-informed constructionist perspective to a variety of topics, including mental illness, sodal problems, family, the life course, and dispute processing. Dr. Holstein is coeditor of the research annual, Perspectives on Social Problems, and coauthor (with J. Gubrium) of What Is Family? and Constructing the Life Course. In addition, he is coeditor (with Gale Miller) of Reconsidering Social Constructionism and Constructionist Controversies (both: Aldine de Gruyter, New York).

Cuprins

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment -- Perspectives on Mental Illness -- Reality as an Interactional Accomplishment -- The Labeling Controversy -- Constitutive Analysis -- Studying Interpretive Practice -- Notes -- 2. Analyzing Involuntary Commitment -- A History of Involuntary Commitment -- Contemporary Involuntary Commitment Laws -- Research Settings -- Commitment Hearings in Brief -- Methodological Approach -- Notes -- 3. Decision-Making in Context: Outlook and Orientations -- Contingent Factors and Commitment Decisions -- Background Assumptions and Orientations -- Psychiatry and the Law -- Danger or Disability? -- Notes -- 4. The Sequential Organization of Commitment Hearings -- Delimiting Legal Proceedings: The Summons -- Producing Psychiatric Assessments -- Organizing the Patient's Rebuttal -- Attorneys' Comments and Summations -- Resolution -- Interpretive Issues for Involuntary Commitment -- Notes -- 5. The Conversational Organization of Competence and Incompetence -- Interactional Competence and Crazy Talk -- Organizing Interactional Competence -- Organizing Incompetence -- Incompetence, Normalcy, and Conversational Practice -- Notes -- 6. Troubles, Tenability, and the Placement of Insanity -- Tenability and Troubles -- Managing Basic Necessities -- The Presence of Competent Caretakers -- Cooperation with a Treatment Regime -- Placing Insanity: Matching Needs to -- Accommodations -- Accomplishing Tenability -- Tenability and Accountability -- Notes -- 7. Mental Illness Assumptions -- Mental Illness Assumptions as Interpretive Schemes -- Mental Illness and Credibility -- Contextualizing Patients' Performance -- Suspending the Assumption -- Tenability and Mental Illness -- Notes -- 8. Constructing Tenability: Interpretive Practice in Cultural Context -- Producing People -- Using Normal Forms -- Accomplishing Accommodations: Matching People with Places -- Description, Rhetoric, and Argumentation -- Notes -- 9. Action That Divides -- Mental Illness and Community Custody -- Accountability Structures -- Rationalizing Compassion, Domesticating Control -- Notes -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Patient Polly Brown -- Appendix 2: Patient Regina Farmer -- Appendix 3: Patient Jason Andro -- References -- Index.

Descriere

This book analyzes how hearing participants construct and organize arguments that are legally, psychiatrically, and practically accountable. It argues that commitment decisions orient to the "tenability" of situations that patients pose as alternatives to hospitalization.