Response to the white paper on MHA reform:marginalisation of patients detained under part Ⅲ of the MHA

• 作者: Sarah Markham
• 来源期刊: 综合精神医学
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: Commentaries
• 页码范围: 175-178
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.1136/gpsych-2021-100524

摘要

In England and Wales,the Mental Health Act(MHA) 1983 provides the legal framework for the detention of individuals suffering from a mental disorder if they are judged to present a risk of harm to self or others.The MHA removes from certain psychiatric patients civil liberties otherwise inherent in our legal system.Through both statute and common law,it balances a patient's right to autonomy with psychiatrists' duty of care by reference to the health and safety of the patient.It also balances the civil rights of individual patients against the right of society to protection.