Braceland, Francis

Francis J. Braceland. Memoriam, Kenneth Ellmaker Appel, 1896-1979, American Journal of Psychiatry. 137 no. 4 (Apr. 1980) 501-503. Source for Appel. 

If we substitute psychiatric for religious terms. Lea s statement becomes a description of the legal situation of the hospitalized mental patient The mentally ill, whether diagnosed or suspected, has no rights.. . . there is no hesitation in employing whatever means are readiest to save his mental health and advance the faith in psychiatric medicine. It is a feature of some illnesses, writes Francis J. Braceland, clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University and a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, that people do not have insight into the fact that they are sick. In short, sometimes it is necessary to protect them for a while... 

Testimony presented on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association by Francis J. Braceland, M.D., Psychiatrist in Chief, the Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, and Jack R. Ewalt, M.D., Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., in Constitutional Rights of the Mentally III, pp. 79-85 pp. 80-81. 

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