Mental disorder (earlier entitled “illness” or “disease”), is ascribed to deviations from normal
thoughts, reasoning, feelings, attitudes, and actions that are by their subjects, or by others …

Abstract The Netherlands became State Party to the United Nation Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2016, a treaty that holds great promise for promoting …

Anorexia nervosa, or restrictive anorexia, is one of a collection of disorders that includes
bulimia and binging and purging syndromes. Because it is common (it is the second most …

A philosopher who has experienced psychosis argues that recovery requires regaining
agency and autonomy within a therapeutic relationship based on mutual trust. In Mental …

Because some forms of self-starvation such as hunger striking are exempt from attributions
of pathology, and due to incomplete understanding of its etiology, anorexia nervosa (AN) is …

Depending upon how they are regulated in domestic law, advance directives (ADs) can
enable persons to make decisions that have legal effect in the future as directed in the AD …

This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the
last several decades. It presents the disciplines themselves as change agents that have …

The thesis postulates that a framework of advance directives (ADs), which supports persons
in exercising their legal capacity by transposing the legal effect of a decision as directed in …

OVER ALMOST the last fifty years, involuntary outpatient commitment (IOC) has been a topic
of intense discussion by mental-health professionals, policy makers, politicians, individuals …