Introduction -- PART I: MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT TECHNIQUES: A continuum of intrusiveness -- Psychotherapy -- Behavior therapy -- Psychotropic medication -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Electronic stimulation of the brain -- Psychosurgery -- PART II: CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON INVOLUNTARY MENTAL HEALTH AND CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT: The Constitution and other sources of legal limitation on govermentally imposed therapy -- The First Amendment and mental health treatment: constitutional protection against interference with mental processes -- Substantive due process and mental health treatment: constitutional protection for bodily integrity, mental privacy, and individual autonomy -- Treatment as punishment: Eighth Amendment limits on mental health interventions -- Religion-based refusal of treatment: constitutional protection for the free exercise of religion -- Are mental patients different? : equal protection limits on involuntary treatments -- Scrutinizing the government's interest in involuntary treatment -- Scrutiny of the means used to accomplish governmental interests -- PART III: EVALUATING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis of the right to refuse mental health treatment -- Waiver of the right to refuse treatment: the requirement of informed consent -- Procedural due process and involuntary therapy: the right to a hearing -- The future of the right to refuse treatment.