Section: Publications

Jeffrey Geller, M.D.,M.P.H.

PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED ARTICLES

Geller J:  "The Development of Behavior Therapy with Autistic Children:  A Review."  Journal of Chronic Diseases 25:21‑31, 1972.

Geller JL:  "Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa by the Integration of Behavior Therapy and Psychotherapy."  Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 26:167‑177, 1975.

Geller JL, Lister E:  "The Process of Criminal Commitment for Pretrial Psychiatric Examination:  An Evaluation."  American Journal of Psychiatry 135:53‑60, 1978.

Geller JL:  "The Muddied Path Between the Criminal Court and the State Hospital."  Journal of Psychiatry and Law 8:389‑411, 1980.

Geller JL:  "Sustaining Treatment with the Hospitalized Patient Who Refuses Treatment."  American Journal of Psychiatry 139:112‑113, 1982. 

Geller JL:  "State Hospital Patients and Their Medication:  Do They Know What They Take?"  American Journal of Psychiatry 139:611‑615, 1982.  Reprinted in Spring RL, Lacoursiere RB, Weissenberger G:  Patients, Psychiatrists and Lawyers:  Law and the Mental Health System.  Anderson, Cincinnati, 1989.

Geller J, Brandzel M:  "Addressing the Borderline's Repetitive Misuse of the State Hospital :  A Case Report."  Psychiatric Quarterly 55:275‑278, 1983.

Geller J:  "Arson:  An Unforeseen Sequela of Deinstitutionalization."  American Journal of Psychiatry 141:504‑508, 1984.

Geller JL, Bertsch G:  "Firesetting Behavior in the Histories of a State Hospital Population."  American Journal of Psychiatry 142:464‑468, 1985.

Geller JL:  "Women's Accounts of Psychiatric Illness and Institutionaliza­tion."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 36:1056‑1062, 1985.

Geller JL:  "The Long‑Term Outcome of Unresolved Grief:  An Example."  Psychiatric Quarterly 57:142‑146, 1985.

Geller JL:  "In Again, Out Again.  A Preliminary Evaluation of a State Hospital 's Worst Recidivists."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 37:386‑ 390, 1986.

Geller JL, Erlen J, Pinkus R:  "A Historical Appraisal of America's Experience with 'Pyromania'‑‑A Diagnosis in Search of a Disorder."  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 9:201‑229, 1986.

Geller JL:  "Rights, Wrongs, and the Dilemma of Coerced Community Treat­ment."  American Journal of Psychiatry 143:1259‑1264, 1986.

Geller JL, Munetz MR:  "The Process of Staff Change:  Grappling with the Needs of the High‑Management Patient."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 37:1047‑1049, 1986.

Geller JL:  "The Quandaries of Enforced Community Treatment and Unenforce­able Outpatient Commitment Statutes."  The Journal of Psychiatry and Law 14:149‑158, 1986.

Mulvey EP, Geller JL, Roth LH:  "Balancing the Promises and Perils of Involuntary Outpatient Commitment."  American Psychologist 42:571‑584, 1987.

Geller JL:  "Fire‑setting in the Adult Psychiatric Population."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 38:501‑506, 1987.  Abstracted in Psychiatry Digest 1:3‑5, 1988.

Geller JL:  The "Elixir of Life?"  The Journal of Irreproducible Results 33(2):20, 1987.

Geller JL, Lidz CW:  "When the Subjects are Hospital Staff, is it Ethical (or Possible) to Get Informed Consent?"  IRB 9:4‑5, 1987.

McEvoy JP, Apperson LJ, Appelbaum PS, Ortlip P, Brecosky J, Hammill K, Geller JL, Roth L:  "Insight in Schizophrenia:  Its Relationship to Acute Psychopathology."  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177:43‑47, 1989.

McEvoy JP, Freter S, Everett G, Geller JL, Appelbaum P, Apperson LJ, Roth L:  "Insight and the Clinical Outcome of Schizophrenic Patients."  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177:48‑51, 1989.

McEvoy JP, Appelbaum PS, Apperson LJ, Geller JL, Freter S:  "Why Must Some Schizophrenic Patients be Involuntarily Committed?  The Role of Insight."  Comprehensive Psychiatry 30:13‑17, 1989.

Geller JL:  "Deinstitutionalization in Nineteenth Century America :  A Case Example."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 40:85‑86, 1989.

Fisher WH, Geller JL, Costello DJ, Phillips BF:  "Demographic Trends and Mental Health Services:  State hospitals in the 1990's."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 40:747-749, 1989.

Schmidt MJ, Geller JL:  "Involuntary Administration of Medication in the Community ‑ The Judicial Opportunity."  Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 17:283‑292, 1989.

Geller JL:  "A Bite of AIDS?  Institutional Line Staff and the Fear of HIV Contagion."  Psychiatric Quarterly 60:243-251, 1989.  Abstracted in Sociological Abstracts.

Geller JL, Erlen J, Kaye NS, Fisher WH:  "Feigned Insanity in Nineteenth Century America :  Tactics, Trials, and Truth."  Behavioral Sciences and the Law 8:3-26, 1990.

Fisher WH, Geller JL, Wirth‑Cauchon J:  "Empirically Assessing the Impact of Mobile Crisis Capacity on State Hospital Admissions."  Community Mental Health Journal 26:245‑253, 1990.

Geller JL:  "Low Dose Neuroleptic Treatment (case report)."  American Journal of Psychiatry 147:672, 1990.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, Wirth‑Cauchon JL, Simon LJ:  Second Generation Deinstitutionalization I:  "The Impact of Brewster v. Dukakis on State Hospital Case Mix."  American Journal of Psychiatry 147:982‑987, 1990.  Abstracted in Sociological Abstracts and in Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry, Nov/Dec 1990, p. 264.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, Simon LJ, Wirth‑Cauchon JL:  "Second Generation Deinstitutionalization II:  The Impact of Brewster v. Dukakis on Correlates of Community and Hospital Utilization."  American Journal of Psychiatry 147:988‑993, 1990.  Abstracted in Sociological Abstracts and in Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry, Nov/Dec 1990, p. 265.

Geller JL:  "Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Involuntary Outpatient Treatment."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 41:749‑755, 1990.  Abstracted in Sociological Abstracts.

Geller JL, Kaye NS :  "Smoking in Psychiatric Hospitals:  A Historical View of a Hot Topic."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 41:1349‑1350, 1990.

Geller JL:  "Any Place But the State Hospital.  Examining Assumptions About the Benefits of Admission Diversion."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 42:145‑152, 1991.

Geller JL:  "Operation Desert Storm and Delusions About the War Among Chronic Patients in the Community."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 42:419‑420, 1991.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, Kaye NS :  "Effect of evaluations of competency to stand trial on the state hospital in an era of increased community services."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 42:818‑823, 1991.  Abstracted in Psychiatry Digest 5:21‑22, 1992.

Geller JL:  "Rx:  A Tincture of Coercion in Outpatient Treatment."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 42:1068‑1070, 1991.

Geller JL, Erlen J, Kaye NS, Fisher WH:  "Feigned Insanity in Nineteenth Century America :  Experts, Explanations, Evaluations, and Exculpations."  Anglo‑American Law Review 20:443‑481, 1991.

Fisher WH, Geller JL, Pearsall D, Simon L, Wirth‑Cauchon J:  "A Continuum of Services for the Deinstitutionalized, Chronically Mentally Ill Elderly."  Administration and Policy in Mental Health 18:397‑410, 1991.

Geller JL:  "Communicative Arson."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 43:76‑77, 1992.

Tonkonogy JM, Geller JL:  "Hypothalamic Lesions and Intermittent Explosive Disorder."  Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 4:45‑50, 1992.

Geller JL:  "Clinical Encounters with Outpatient Coercion at the CMHC:  Questions of Implementation and Efficacy."  Community Mental Health Journal 28:81‑94, 1992.

Fisher WH, Geller JL, Altaffer F, Bennett MB:  "The Relationship Between Community Resources and State Hospital Recidivism."  American Journal of Psychiatry 149:385‑390, 1992.

Geller JL, White C, Fisher WH, Sorgi P, Jarvey AM:  "Operation Desert Storm and a State Hospital Population:  What Patients Knew, Thought, and Felt."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 43:833‑835, 1992.

Geller JL:  "Pathological Firesetting in Adults."  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 15:283‑302, 1992.

Geller JL:  "A Survey of the "Worst" State Hospital Recidivists in the USA."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 43:904‑908, 1992.

Geller JL, Gaulin BD, Barreira PJ:  A Practitioner’s Guide to Use of Psychotropic Medication in Liquid Form.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 43:969-971, 1992.

Geller JL:  "A Historical Perspective on the Role of State Hospitals Viewed from the Era of the Revolving Door."  American Journal of Psychiatry 149:1526‑1533, 1992.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, Moynihan K:  "Adult Lifetime Prevalence of Fire-setting Behaviors in a State Hospital Population."  Psychiatric Quarterly 63:129‑142, 1992.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, Bertsch G:  "Who Repeats?  A Follow‑Up Study of State Hospital Patients' Firesetting Behavior."  Psychiatric Quarterly 63:143‑157, 1992.

Geller JL: "Treating Revolving‑Door Patients Who Have 'Hospitalphilia':  Compassion, Coercion, and Common Sense." Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:141‑146, 1993. 

Nicholson J, Geller JL, Fisher WH, Dion GL:  "State Policies and Programs that Address the Needs of Mentally Ill Mothers in the Public Sector."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:484‑489, 1993.

Geller JL, Fisher WH:  "Transitional Residences in the Linear Continuum:  Debunking the Myth."  American Journal of Psychiatry 150:1070‑1076, 1993.

Munetz MR, Geller JL:  Least Restrictive Alternative in the Post‑ institutional Era.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:967‑973, 1993.

Fisher WH, White C, Geller JL, Altaffer F:  Predicting State vs. Private Hospital Referral in Psychiatric Emergencies.  Administration and Policy in Mental Health 21:449-461, 1994.

Geller JL:  Issues in American Psychiatry Reflected in Remarks of APA Presidents, 1844‑1994.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 45:993‑1004, 1994.

Fisher WH, Geller JL, White CL, Altaffer F:  "'Serving the Seriously Mentally Ill in the Least Restrictive Alternative':  Issues from a Federal Court Consent Decree."  Administration and Policy in Mental Health 22:423-436, 1995.

Geller JL:  A Biopsychosocial Rationale for Coerced Community Treatment in the Management of Schizophrenia.  Psychiatric Quarterly, 66:219-235, 1995.

White CL, Bateman A, Fisher WH, Geller JL:  Factors Associated with Admission to Public and Private Hospitals from a Psychiatric Emergency Screening Site.   Psychiatric Services 46:467-472, 1995.

White CL, Nicholson J, Fisher WH, Geller JL:  "Mothers with Severe Mental Illness Caring for Children."  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 183:398-403, 1995.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, McDermeit M:  A National Survey of Mobile Crisis Services and Their Evaluation.  Psychiatric Services 46:893-897, 1995.

Fisher WH, Soreff S, Geller JL, McDermeit M, White CL, Hicks L:  Inpatient Treatment "Careers" of Persons with Schizophrenia: Public and Private Hospital Utilization.  Administration and Policy in Mental Health 23:137-151, 1995.

Fisher WH, Simon L, Geller JL, Penk WB, Irvin EA, White CL:  Case mix in the "downsizing" state hospital.  Psychiatric Services 47:255-262, 1996.

Nicholson J, Geller JL, Fisher WH:  "Sylvia Frumkin" has a baby:  A case study for policy makers.  Psychiatric Services 47:497-501, 1996.

Geller JL:  Mental Health Services in the Future:  Managed Care, Unmanaged Care, Mismanaged Care.  Smith College Studies in Social Work 66:223-239, 1996.

Geller JL:  Self-incineration:  A review of the psychopathology of setting oneself afire.  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 29:355-372, 1997.

Geller JL, Grudzinskas AJ , McDermeit M, Fisher WH, Lawlor T:  The efficacy of involuntary outpatient psychiatric treatment in Massachusetts.  Administration and Policy in Mental Health 25:271-285, 1998.

Geller JL, Brown JM, Fisher WH, Grudzinskas AJ, Manning TD:  A National survey of “consumer empowerment” at the state level.  Psychiatric Services 49:498-503, 1998.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, McDermeit M, White C:  The rights of state hospital patients:   From state hospitals to their alternatives.  Administration and Policy in Mental Health 25:387-401, 1998.

Nicholson J, Sweeney EM, Geller JL:  Mothers with mental illness:  I.   The competing demands of parenting and living with mental illness.  Psychiatric Services 49:635-642, 1998.

Nicholson J, Sweeney EM, Geller JL:  Mothers with mental illness:  II.  Family relationships and the context of parenting.  Psychiatric Services 49:643-649, 1998.

Tonkonogy JM, Geller JL:  Late-onset paranoid psychosis as a distinct clinicopathological entity.  Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology 12:230-235, 1999.

Geller JL:  The last half-century of psychiatric services as reflected in Psychiatric Services.  Psychiatric Services 51:41-67, 2000.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, McDermeit M, Brown JM:  The effects of public sector managed care on patterns of intensive use of inpatient psychiatric services.  Psychiatric Services, 49:327-332, 1998.  Reprinted in Psychiatric Services 51:1385-1391, 2000.

Geller JL:  The use of advance directives by persons with serious mental illness for psychiatric treatment.  Psychiatric Quarterly 71:1-13, 2000.

Penk WE, Flannery Jr. RB, Irvin E, Geller J, Fisher W, Hanson MA:  Characteristics of substance-abusing persons with schizophrenia:  The paradox of the dually diagnosed.  Journal of Addictive Diseases 19:23-30, 2000.

Geller JL:  At the margins of human rights and psychiatric care in North America.  Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 101 (399):87-92, 2000.

Geller JL:  Excluding Institutions for Mental Diseases from federal reimbursement for services:  Strategy or tragedy. Psychiatric Services 51:1397-1403, 2000.

Fisher WH, Barreira PJ, Geller JL, White AW, Lincoln AK, Sudders M:  Long-stay patients in state psychiatric hospitals at the end of the 20^th century.  Psychiatric Services 52:1051-1056, 2001.

Geller JL, Sprung S, McCracken SG, Boggio RM, Munetz MR, Zarate CA, Evans NK, Sudders M:  The case of Sam:  multidisciplinary perspectives.  Psychiatric Services 52:1318-1330, 2001.

Stovall J, Hobart M, Geller JL:  One strike and you’re out: the impact of an employees’ strike upon a community mental health center.  Psychiatric Services, 55:188-191, 2004.

Geller JL, Morrissey JP:  Asylum within and without asylums.  Psychiatric Services 55:1128-1130, 2004

Geller JL, Stanley JA:  Settling the doubts about the constitutionality of outpatient commitment.  New England Journal of Criminal and Civil Confinement, 31:127-138, 2005

Geller JL, Stanley JA:  Response to: New research continues to challenge the need for outpatient commitment.  Journal of Criminal and Civil Confinement, 31:123-126, 2005

Geller JL, Shore H, Grudzinskas AJ, Appelbaum PS:  Against the grain?  A reasoned argument for not closing a state hospital.  Psychiatric Quarterly, 76:177-194, 2005.

Geller JL:  A history of private psychiatric hospitals in the USA :  From start to almost finished.  Psychiatric Quarterly, 77:1-41, 2006.

Geller JL:  The evolution of outpatient commitment in the USA :  From conundrum to quagmire.   International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 29:234-248, 2006.

Biebel K, Nicholson J, Fisher W, Geller J:  A national survey of state mental health authority programs and policies for clients who are parents:  A decade later.  Psychiatric Quarterly, in press.

Geller JL, Biebel K:  The premature demise of public child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric beds.  Part I: Overview and current conditions.  Psychiatric Quarterly, in press.

Geller JL, Biebel K:  The premature demise of public child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric beds.  Part II: Challenges and implications.  Psychiatric Quarterly, in press.

Geller JL:  Avoiding extinction:  Successful private psychiatric hospitals in the opening decade of the twenty-first century.  Psychiatric Quarterly, in press.

BOOKS

Geller JL, Harris M:  Women of the Asylum.  New York, Anchor Books, 1994.

VIDEOTAPES

Geller JL:  Worcester State Hospital Before the War.  An Interview with Walter E. Barton, M.D.  Worcester, MA, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 1995.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND MONOGRAPHS

Lister E, Geller J:  "Crossing Organizational Boundaries:  Pre‑Trial Commitment for Psychiatric Evaluation."  In JP Morrissey, HH Goldman, LV Klerman (eds.), The Enduring Asylum.  New York, Grune and Stratton, 1980.

Geller JL, Munetz MR:  "The Iatrogenic Creation of Psychiatric Chronicity in Women."  In C Nadelson, LL Bachrach (eds.), Treating Chronically Mentally Ill Women.  Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1988, pp. 141‑177.

Geller JL:  "We Live in the Community with No Voices of Our Own."  In JA Talbott, A Manevitz (eds.), Psychiatric Housecalls.  Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1988, pp. 222‑227.

Geller JL:  "The Chronic Mentally Ill."  In A Lazare (Ed): Outpatient Psychiatry.  Baltimore, MD, Williams and Wilkins, 1989. 

Geller JL, Fisher WH, Simon LJ, Wirth‑Cauchon JL:  "The Massachusetts Experience with Funded Deinstitutionalization:  A Decade of Promises, Products and Problems Under the Brewster v. Dukakis Consent Decree."  UMMC/DMH Monograph #PS‑891, Worcester, MA, 1989.

Hoge SK, Appelbaum PS, Geller JL:  "Involuntary Treatment."  In American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry Volume 8.  Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1989, pp. 432‑450.

Geller JL:  "Arson in Review:  From Profit to Pathology."  Psychiatric Clinics of North America 15:623‑645, 1992.

Geller JL:  "The Right to Treatment."  In R. Rosner (Ed):  The Compre­hensive Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry.  New York, Van Nostrand, 1994.

Geller JL:  Commentary on Suicide.  In P. Backlar (Ed):  The Family Face of Schizophrenia.  Los Angeles, Jeremy D. Tarcher, 1994.

Geller JL:   Coerced Community Treatment and Psychiatric Hospital Recidivism.  In S. Soreff (Ed):  Handbook for the Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill, Seattle, Hogrefe & Huber, 1996.

Geller JL, Nicholson J, Traverso A:  The Victimization of Women with Mental Illness by Treators:  A Historical Perspective.  In M. Harris (Ed): Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Women Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness.  Amsterdam, Harwood, 1997.

Geller JL:  Mental health services for the future:  Managed care, unmanaged care, mismanaged care?  In G. Schamess, A. Lightburn (Eds):  Humane Managed Care.  Washington, D.C., NASW Press, 1998.

Geller JL:  Psychiatric health care proxies in Massachusetts : Much to do about nothing, so far.  In P. Backlar, D.L. Cutler (Eds): Ethics in Community Mental Health Care.  New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2002.

Geller JL:  Pathological firesetting: A burning issue.  In R. Kocsis (Ed):  Criminal Profiling and Serial Violent Crimes.  Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, in press.

INVITED PUBLISHED PAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Geller JL, Lister ED:  Reply to a comment (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 135:256, 1978.

Geller JL, Appelbaum PS:  Competency to Stand Trial  Neuroleptic medication and Demeanor in Court.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 36:6‑7, 1985.  Reprinted in Rucker WB, Rucker ME (eds):  Drugs, Society and Behavior, Dushkin, Guilford, CT, 1987.  Reprinted in Paul Appelbaum on Law and Psychiatry, H & CP Service, 1989, pp. 13‑14.

Lister ED, Geller JL:  The making of a modern psychiatrist:  Cracks in the foundation (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 142:1524‑1525, 1985.

Geller JL:  "On strike."  Psychiatric Annals 16:188, 1986.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Premium Non Nocere‑‑Above All, Do No Harm.  Contemporary Psychiatry 5:102-105, 1986.

Geller JL:  "Can We Talk" evokes praise, objections (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 143:934, 1986.

Geller JL:  Involuntary Outpatient Commitment?  Psychiatric Times 3:8-9, 1986.

Geller JL:  “Psychiatric Health Care Proxies in Massachusetts : Much To Do About Nothing, So Far.”  In P. Backlar and D.L. Cutler (Eds):  Ethics in Community Health Care.  New York, Kluwer, 2002.

Geller JL:  Outpatient civil commitment.  Dr. Geller responds (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 144:695, 1987.

Geller JL:  Coerced outpatient treatment.  Dr. Geller replies (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 144:968‑969, 1987.

Geller JL, Hoge SK :  Voluntary and involuntary patients.  (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 144:1112, 1987.

Geller JL:  Drug noncompliance.  (Ltr to edit).  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 40:191, 1989.

Geller JL:  Social work's PIE system.  (Ltr to edit).  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 41:455, 1990.

Geller JL, Roth LR:  Commentary on Monahan J:  Prediction Research and the Emergency Commitment of Dangerous Mentally Ill Persons:  A Reconsideration.  In JE Mezzich, B Zimmer (Eds.).  Emergency Psychiatry.  International University Press, Madison, CT, 1990.

Geller JL, Fisher WH:  Psychiatric ward incidents (Ltr to edit).  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 41:1024‑1025, 1990.

Geller JL:  Services for the homeless mentally ill (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 148:272, 1991.

Geller JL:  Involuntary Outpatient Commitment:  The Debate Continues (tape).  Practical Reviews in Psychiatry and the Law, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law1991.

Geller JL:  Stigmatizing labels (Ltr to edit).  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 42:319, 1991.

Geller JL, Fisher WH:  Reply to 'Community‑based care in western Massachusetts '.  (Ltr to edit).  American Journal of Psychiatry 148:816, 1991.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Schizophrenia:  Treatment of Acute Psychotic Episodes.  General Hospital Psychiatry 13:281‑283, 1991.

Geller JL:  Emergence of a Free Romanian Psychiatry.  Psychiatric News 26:14, 16, 1991.

Geller JL:  “Defining the meaning of ‘in the community’.”  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 42:1197, 1991.

Geller JL:  To be poor and mentally ill:  Looking back to see ahead, Smith College School for Social Work Journal 9:26‑32, 1991.

Geller JL:  Comment on William H. Wilson, "Psychiatric education in a state hospital:  A current approach."  Community Mental Health Journal 28:61‑67, 1992.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  "Bedlam:  A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital."  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 43:652‑653, 1992.

Fisher WH, Altaffer F, White CL, Geller JL:  Inpatient Services for the Seriously Mentally Ill:  Estimating the State Hospital 's "Market Share."  Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on State Mental Health Service System Research.  Alexandria VA, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute, 1991, pp. 289‑298.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  "The Private Wars of Mrs. Packard."  American Journal of Psychiatry 149:971‑972, 1992.

Geller JL: A glimpse of Romanian psychiatry. Documents of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry 59:48‑57, 1992.

Geller JL.  In reply (Ltr to edit).  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:691, 1993.

Geller JL:  “On being 'committed' to treatment in the community.”  Innovations & Research 2:23‑27, 1993.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  The Death of Superman.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:290-292, 1993

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Girl, Interrupted.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:1108‑1109, 1993.

Nicholson J, Geller JL, Fisher WH, Dion GL:  In reply (Ltr to edit).  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:1107, 1993.

Geller JL:  A Hospital by Any Other Name…Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44:1125, 1993

Geller JL, Harris M:  On the usefulness of first‑person accounts.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 45:7‑8, 1994.

Geller JL, Appelbaum PS:  Samuel B. Woodward's remarks on feigned insanity.  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 45:318‑319, 328, 1994.

Geller JL:  A history lesson.  Psychiatric News 29(6):10, 1994.

Geller JL:  Book Reviews "Crazy All the Time", "Under Observation" and "9 Highland Road."  Psychiatric Services 46:733-735, 1995.

Geller JL:  First-Person Accounts of Psychiatric Illness and Treatment: Reviews of Recent Books (11 books).  Psychiatric Services 46:1080-1087, 1995.

Geller JL:  When Less is More; When Less is Less.  Psychiatric Services 46:1105, 1995.

Geller JL, Fisher WH:  In reply (Ltr to edit).  Psychiatric Services 47:91-92, 1996.

Geller JL, Fisher WH, McDermeit M:  In reply (Ltr to edit).  Psychiatric Services 47:310, 1996.

Geller JL:  Disability payments among schizophrenic cocaine abusers (Ltr to edit).  New England Journal of Medicine 334:664, 1996.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Unbearable Affect:  A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis."  Psychiatric Services 47:541, 1996.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  "Welcome to My Country."  Psychiatric Services 47:658-659, 1996.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Affective Disorders From Inside Out:  Six First-Person Accounts.  Psychiatric Services 47:767-771, 1996.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Stories by 'Multiples' as told by themselves (4 books).  Psychiatric Services 47:1006-1008, 1996.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Patients Talk About Their Treatments:  Five First-Person Accounts.  Psychiatric Services 47:1135-1138, 1996.

Geller JL:  Make 'em Do It.  Psychiatric Services 47:1157, 1996.

Geller JL:  Is the Camel’s Nose Under the Tent?  Psychiatric News 31(23):18, 34, 1996.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Psychological trauma from victims’ view points:  five books.  Psychiatric Services 48:251-254, 1997.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Novel psychiatrists.  Review of four novels with psychiatrists as the main character.  Psychiatric Services 48:713-716, 1997.

Geller JL, McDermeit M, Grudzinskas AJ, Lawlor T, Fisher WH:  A competency-based approach to court-ordered outpatient treatment.  In MR Munetz (Ed):  Can Mandatory Treatment Be Therapeutic?  New Directions for Mental Health Services no. 75.  San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1997, pp. 81-95.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  First-person accounts with a different slant.  Review of seven books.  Psychiatric Services 48:1471-1475, 1997.

Geller JL:  We still count beds.  Psychiatric Services 48:1233, 1997.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  From the eccentric to the bizarre.  Review of five books.  Psychiatric Services 49:394-396, 1998.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Daughter’s views of their mentally ill mothers.  Review of three books.  Psychiatric Services 49:702-705, 1998.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Is it bogus, is it not?  Review of ten books.  Psychiatric Services 49:1363-1369, 1998.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Women speak about their mental illness.  Review of six books.  Psychiatric Services 50:708-713, 1999.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  City of One :  A Memoir.  Psychiatric Services 50:838-839, 1999.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Wasted:  Tales of a Gen X Drunk and My Mamma’s Waltz: A Book for Daughters of Alcoholic Mothers.  Psychiatric Services 50:1238-1239, 1999.

Geller JL:  Reclaiming oneself from the symptoms of mental illness.  Review of five books.  Psychiatric Services 50:1644-1647, 1999.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Girl Interrupted: The book and the film.  Psychiatric Services 51:536-537, 2000.

Geller JL:  First-person accounts in the Journal’s first quarter-century.  Psychiatric Services 51:575-578, 2000.

Geller JL:  First-person accounts in the Journal’s second 25 years.  Psychiatric Services 51:713-716, 719, 2000.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Losing family:  Three first-person accounts.  Psychiatric Services 51:1324-1325, 2000.

Munetz MR, Geller JL, Frese FJ:  Commentary:  Capacity-based involuntary outpatient treatment.   Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 28:145-148, 2000.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Tourette’s Syndrome in fact and fiction (3 books).  Psychiatric Services 51:1455-1457, 2000.

Geller JL:  American “community” psychiatry.  The Lancet, supplement, December, 2000.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Sexual abuse.  Review of three books.  Psychiatric Services 52:115-116, 2001.

Geller JL:  You must read this.  Psychiatric Services 52:265, 2001.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Mockingbird Years.  Psychiatric Services 52:695-696, 2001.

Geller JL:  Ain’t no such thing as a schizophrenic.  Psychiatric Services 52:715, 2001.

Geller JL:  Book Review: Dates and dictionaries (5 books).  Psychiatric Services 52:980-983, 2001.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism.  Psychiatric Services 52:1259-1260, 2001.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  The Day the Voices Stopped:  A Schizophrenic’s Journey from Madness to Hope.  Psychiatric Services 52:1400-1401, 2001.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient.  Psychiatric Services 52:1403-1404, 2001.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  A sampling of first-person accounts (7 books).  Psychiatric Services 52:1540-1543, 2001.

Geller JL:  Donut shop diversion program.  Psychiatric Services 52:1559, 2001.

Geller JL: The Case of Sam: In Reply (Ltr to Edit).  Psychiatric Services 53:482, 2002.

Geller JL:  Does “in the community” mean anything anymore?  Psychiatric Services 53: 1201, 2002.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Two personal accounts from Hollywood.  Psychiatric Services 53: 1332-1333, 2002.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Three women speak again about experiences with illness.  Psychiatric Services 53:1338-1339, 2002.

Geller JL:  Process, not practice (Ltr to Edit).  Psychiatric Services 54:402, 2003.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  When mental illness comes and goes (3 books).  Psychiatric Services 54:1004-1046, 2003.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Retards, rebels, and slackers.  Psychiatric Services 54:1169-1170, 2003.

Geller JL:  Medicaid everywhere.  Psychiatric Services 55:215, 2004.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Sadness, depression and hypomania:  Five first person accounts.  Psychiatric Services 55:590-593, 2004.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  How accidents, alcohol and madness affect the family:  Three accounts.  Psychiatric Services 55:721-723, 2004.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Personal accounts by users and providers of mental health services:  Seven books.  Psychiatric Services 55:837-841, 2004.

Geller JL:  Book Review:   The Hillside Diary and Other Writings.  Psychiatric Services 55:1070-1071, 2004.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  State Hospitals:  Problems and Potentials.  Psychiatric Services 55:1185-1186, 2004.

Geller JL, Haynes K:  Book Review:  Family accounts:  Autism Spectrum Disorders (six books).  Psychiatric Services 55:1320-1322, 2004.

Haynes K, Geller JL:  Book Review:  Personal accounts:  Asperger Syndrome (three books).  Psychiatric Services 55:1324-1326, 2004.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Two masters stumble.  Psychiatric Services 55:1446-1447, 2004.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  The cock and bull of Augusten Burroughs (three books).  Psychiatric Services 56:363-364, 2005

Geller JL:  Book Review:  She’s not there:  A life in two genders.  Psychiatric Services 56:495-496, 2005.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Fathers lost, found or looking (five books).  Psychiatric Services 56:878-880, 2005.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Menspeak (four books).  Psychiatric Services 56:1026-1027, 2005.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  The lobotomist and the lobotomized (two books).  Psychiatric Services 56:1318-1319, 2005.

Geller JL:  First person accounts:  The importance of being honest.  Psychiatric Services, 57:607, 2006.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Women speak… briefly (five books).  Psychiatric Services 57:145-147, 2006.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Women’s search for love through sex (four books).  Psychiatric Services 57:729-730, 2006.

Geller JL:  Book Review:  Brief reviews (seven books).  Psychiatric Services 57:749-751, 2006.

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Keywords: Public Sector Psychiatry, Fire Setting, Chronic Mental Illness, History of Psychiatry, Outpatient commitment

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