Mental illness is different and ignoring its differences profits nobody
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https://doi.org/10.19164/ijmhcl.v0i20.239Abstract
Szmukler, Daw and Dawson have produced a detailed and carefully worded proposal for a new approach fusing mental health and capacity legislation. In practice their proposal abolishes separate mental health legislation. It aims to ensure that compulsory care for the mentally ill is provided, when needed, according to the same principles as in severe disabling physical disorders (e.g. toxic confusion states, acute head injury, dementia). Their proposal derives from two strongly held and clearly presented principles – respect for the autonomy of the psychiatric patient and removal of what they consider the stigmatising discrimination between mental and physical illness. Capacity becomes the threshold for considering any compulsory detention or treatment.Published
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