Mandatory treatment plan for mentally ill

Retired psychiatrist says civil commitment process is broken

Thomas Dodson, a retired psychiatrist who had an office in Goose Hollow for 30 years, has a plan to improve the process for “helping the severely mentally ill who require involuntary hospitalization.” Dodson believes the slow, cumbersome and expensive legal process for declaring a person unfit and forcing them into treatment is so ineffective that it do…