Competency to Consent to Voluntary Psychiatric Hospitalization: A Theoretical Approach

  • Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
  • December 1979,
  • 7
  • (4)
  • 390-399;
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Footnotes

  • * Dr. Appelbaum is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Program in Law and Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

  • ** Dr. Bateman is Lecturer in Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine.

  • Address reprint requests to Dr. Appelbaum, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

  • This work was supported in part by a grant from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry.

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