A comparison between legal and psychiatric statements regarding complaints about commitment: A study carried out in a Danish County 1990- 1994

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Andreassen, Michael ^a  

^a Dept Forensic Psychiat Aalborg P   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CRIMINAL LAW; DENMARK; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LANGUAGE; PSYCHIATRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032976086     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2527(98)00034-X     Document Type: Article

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