Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SE-AN) is a chronic eating disorder characterized
by long-term starvation and its physical and psychological sequelae, and severe loss of …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization describes the perpetuation of human
rights violations against people with mental health problems as a global emergency. Despite …

Psychiatry has a contentious history of coercion in the care of patients with mental illness,
and legal frameworks often govern use of coercive interventions, such as involuntary …

Background Physical morbidity is rife among patients with serious mental illness. When they
are involuntarily hospitalized and even treated, they may still refuse treatment for physical …

Background Compulsory hospitalisation in mental health care restricts patients' liberty and is
experienced as harmful by many. Such hospitalisations continue to be used due to their …

Informed consent requires adequate mental capacity to consent to treatment. Mental
capacity (MC) to consent to treatment refers to the ability to make medical decisions. MC is …

Background Coercive measures (such as seclusion, mechanical restraint, and forced
medication) during psychiatric inpatient treatment should be avoided whenever possible …

Women reach out to health care providers for a multitude of health problems in the aftermath
of intimate partner violence, including suicidality; however, little is known about how they …

The ethics of compulsive treatment (CT) is a medical, social and legal discussion that
reemerged after the ratification by 181 countries of the 2007 United Nations Convention on …

Emergency psychiatrists regularly encounter ethical dilemmas, and this article considers
approaches that may promote and enhance ethics-informed practice in emergency …