Compulsory interventions severely restrict constitutional rights of the patients. They are
exceptional measures only to be considered under strict and clearly defined ethical and …

Within the last three to four decades, the provision of mental health care has changed
dramatically. Community-orientated services could be seen as the main conceptual …

Compulsory detention and treatment is a key ethical issue facing psychiatry. It involves
clinicians overriding patients' apparent autonomy, with ensuing ethical implications. The …

Psychiatry is the only specialty that uses legislation which is torn between utilitarian and
rights-focused approaches. Although on the one hand this improves the opportunity for good …

Objectives: Compulsory treatment in psychiatry is controversial and its use has been
increasingly critiqued following the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with …

We describe relevant interfaces between law and psychiatry and current ethical and legal
views and changes within the past decades. Ideas of patient autonomy and patients' rights …

The roots and expanse of the rights of psychiatric patients in North America are broad and
diverse. This paper focuses on four rights that are pushing at the contemporary margins of …

Involuntary treatment for psychiatric illness is a routine occurrence. Strachan and Spaulding
(2003) ask important questions about its legal and moral basis and, correctly, find the current …

The work of psychiatry has always revolved around the twin imperatives of care and custody.
In an older model of psychiatric power, confinement and coercion were accomplished …

There are three lines of argument in defence of coercive treatment of patients with mental
disorders: arguments regarding (1) societal interests to protect others,(2) the patients' own …