Abstract
A three-and-a-half month empirical study of psychiatric probation substantiates previous reports that have described the commitment procedure as largely perfunctory, ritualistic, impersonal, superficial, and presumptive of mental illness. This paper focuses on the need for concern about the manner in which the procedure fails to protect the basic civil rights of psychiatric patients.
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