In this paper, we argue that there are reasons to believe that an implicit bias for normalcy
influences what are considered medically necessary treatments in psychiatry. First, we …

The concept of vulnerability is widely used in bioethics, particularly in research ethics and
public health ethics. The traditional approach construes vulnerability as inherent in …

Person centered care (PCC) invites ideas of shared responsibility as a direct result of its
shared decision making (SDM) process. The intersection of PCC and psychiatric contexts …

Community treatment orders (CTOs) require individuals with a mental illness to accept
treatment from mental health services. CTO legislation in South Australia states that …

Medical ethicist, Guidry-Grimes has critically reviewed the concept of insight, voicing
concerns that it lacks consensus as to its components and that it undermines patient …

The relationship between mental illness, psychiatry, and law is complex, contested, and
filled with possibility. This Handbook reflects our view that we can and should demand more …

but it remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity in patient-clinician
relationships; this discrepancy warrants attention from clinical and ethical perspectives. This …

The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 found that people's experiences and
self-knowledge were mislabelled as a 'lack of insight'. Insight, a psychiatric concept, is …

Scottish mental health legislation includes a unique criterion for the use of compulsion in the
delivery of mental health care and treatment. Under the Mental Health (Care and …

This paper probes the format and underlying assumptions of insight conceptualizations and
assessment procedures in psychiatry. It does so with reference to the often-neglected …