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.