The Alberta Mental Health Act 2010 and Revolving Door Syndrome: Control, Care, and Identity in Making up People

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• 作者：Gary R.S. Barron
• 刊名：Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：53
• 期：3
• 页码：290-315
• 全文大小：121K
• ISSN：1755-618X

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In this paper, I describe dividing practices in making up a specific medical-legal category—the revolving door patient—to identify, label, and direct the actions of particular people living with mental illness. The revolving door patient was a category that had been spoken of for some time, but became a formal legal subject with the introduction of the Alberta Mental Health Act 2010 and Community Treatment Orders (CTOs). I demonstrate how a rationale of control over unpredictable and dangerous individuals was primary in creating this new category, and that the characterization of the revolving door patient required a disciplinary technology to reduce danger. I argue that the CTO is a medical-legal technology that solves the problem of governing a subject in order to produce a patient that manages mental illness. I conclude by reflecting on how the narrative of the revolving door patient, and of mental illness more broadly, has implications for personal identity and tensions between care and control.