Abstract

This article discusses New York Mental Hygiene Law Article 9 hearings to civilly commit psychiatric patients and treat them over objection. 

Keywords

• Voluntary admission

• Informal admission

• Psychiatric hospital

• Psychiatrist

• M.H.L. § 9.39

• Retention

• Release

• Treatment application

• Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)

• Kendra’s Law

• MHL Article 9

• Mentally ill

• Civil commitment

• New York Mental Hygiene Law

• Mental Hygiene Legal Service (MHLS)

Disciplines

• Civil Rights and Discrimination

• Disability Law

• Psychiatry and Psychology

Publication Date

Winter 2016

Citation Information

Mickey Keane & Gerald Lebovits, Mental Hygiene Hearings in New York for Retention, Release, Treatment over Objection, and Assisted Outpatient Treatment, 16 Richmond County B.J. 7 (Winter 2016).