The Right to Refuse Mental Health Treatment

A Continuum of Intrusiveness; Psychotherapy; Behaviour Therapy; Psychotropic Medication; Electroconvulsive Therapy; Electric Stimulation of the Brain; Psychosurgery; The Constitution and Other Sources of Legal Limitation on Governmentally Imposed Therapy; The First Amendment and Mental Health Treatment - Constitutional Protection Against Interference With Mental Processes; Substantive Due Process and Mental Health Treatment: Constitutional Protection for Bodily Integrity, Mental Privacy and Individual Autonomy; Treatment as Punishment: Eighth Amendment Limits on Mental Health Interventions; Religious-Based Refusal of Treatment: Constitutional Protection for the Free Exercise of Relgion; Are Mental Patients Different? - Equal Protection Limits on Involuntary Treatment; Scrutinizing the Governemt's Interests in Involuntary Treatment; Scrutiny of the Means Used to Accomplish Governmental Interests; A Therapeutic Jusisprudence Analysis of the Right to Refuse Mental Health Treatment; Waiver of the Rights to Refuse Treatment - The Requirement of Informed Consent; Procedural Due Process and Involuntary Therapy - The Right to a Hearing; The Future of the Right to Refuse Treatment.