INFORMAL AND FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL OF MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
INFORMAL AND FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL OF MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
Author(s): Petar OpalićSubject(s): Psychology, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: Social control of mentally ill persons; Mental incompetence; Law and psychiatry;
Summary/Abstract: Forms of indirect social control of mentally ill persons are presented first, through the attitudes on normal and pathological mental state, as well as prevention and treatment of mental disorders. Subsequently, the control of mentally ill patients by legal provisions is analyzed, as well as the issue of mental incompetence from a legal, psychiatric and ethical perspective. Legal provisions regulating involuntary hospitalization are specifically analyzed. The conclusion points to a series of unsolved social, professional, normative and political dilemmas related to social control and legal provisions regarding the social control of mentally ill persons.
Journal: Анали Правног факултета у Београду
- Issue Year: 55/2007
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 78-92
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English