Rodzina wobec prawnych problemów ochrony zdrowia psychicznego. Wybrane zagadnienia
A Family Towards Mental Health Legal Problems. Selected Issues

Summary/Abstract: Health and mental illness remain a mystery. Medicine can in many cases indicate the cause of apparition of the dysfunction. Doctors can provide support to a patient experiencing a mental crisis. In many cases, similar afflictions can't be wholly explained by specialists. We still don't know an indisputable source of the occurrence of schizophrenia. We also don’t know why some patients get better when they take the drugs and why others patients don’t see a positive effect. However, observing from a social perspective the phenomenon of mental illness, we can certainly affirm that it affects not only the patient but also the person close to him or her family. Psychological problems require the involvement of loved ones. They also require education concerning psychopathology. Sometimes, a situation set the family up in particularly difficult dilemma. Disturbing patient condition, aggressive behavior, hallucination cause that a patient can become dangerous for yourself or others. In this situation, it's very often necessary to take obligatory actions against an ill person. This person claims to be healthy. Sometimes it’s necessary to use a force by personnel and to place the patient in a psychiatric hospital.In this situation, the family of the ill person is taken into consideration? Does a familly hold specific responsibilities in this context? Perhaps the loved ones have specific rights to help? Does Polish law perceive in this type of events the family of the ill person? This text is an attempt to answer these questions.

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