Mad in America
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
T wo years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “ Guidance to Community Health Services ” that called for a paradigm shift in psychiatric care, with the biomedical model replaced by one that promoted “Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.”
Mad in America
MAY 9, 2024
I couldn’t help but reflect that my interview with him could have been more helpful in at least one concrete sense—that I could have paid closer attention to the emotional dimension of his predicament—had I not had the completion of this unwieldy document in mind. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Unfortunately, this phrase is not legally binding. They could not have known — so few people do — that a system of legalized theft exists that would toss aside their plans and siphon off much of their money. When my father was diagnosed with dementia in 2010, I assumed the role of Successor Trustee, per the trust documents.
Mad in America
JULY 9, 2024
As we come to understand the psychiatric hospital as a pseudo-prison, we must address the question of legality—the pseudo-laws which surround the pseudo-prison. ” As such, psychiatry is enclaved into the legal system as a secret supplementary legal system—a legal system inside the legal system.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” With the entirely benevolent aim of publicising this important document, I emailed the editors of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry to see if they would accept a paper on the Guidelines as a “Viewpoint.” ” Box 2, p.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Psychiatric advance directives are legal documents in which the older adult would identify a proxy, who would be empowered to make decisions on his/her behalf. Psychiatric advance directives should be developed before there is any chance that the older adult will be viewed as incompetent.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 5, 2023
He wanted the settlement to benefit other patients and demanded that the Ministry of Health acknowledge that the belt fixation was a violation of human rights, which documented serious problems in the psychiatric wards. But the money was not important for Silas. This should be done in all countries.
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