In 2005, Ms. Natalia Cohan de Kohen, an 87-year-old widowed Argentine artist and writer known for her free-spirited nature, was involuntarily admitted for 27 days to INEBA, a neuropsychiatric clinic in Buenos Aires. The committal followed a civil insanity and guardianship (insanía) action initiated by her adult daughters, Nora and Claudia, who claimed they sought to protect their mother from what they considered irrational financial behavior. To substantiate their petition, the daughters submitted a preliminary diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease) signed by a neurologist and a cognition expert, asserting that Ms. Kohen was incapable of self-care.