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Inequity and Madness

Psychosocial and Human Rights Issues

By: Jose Guimon, Josi Guimsn, J. Guimon

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Hardcover | 31 December 2001

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Two ofthe most important notions concerning the rights of people with mental illness are among the most neglected: the first is that human rights and duties are complementary and that both must be considered in constructing a framework for mental health care. The second is that we must strive for equity and not only for equality in developing mental health programs. The first ofthese notions is complex. It refers to the duties ofpeople with mental illness and to the duties ofthose who surround them. Mental illness does not liberate the person who has it from civic obligations. The most basic ofthese is to give support to others and to refuse to harm them Their carers, society and the patient's self-respect all gain through their recognition, even though the fulfilment of these obligations might be difficult or impossible in certain periods ofillness. The duty of those surrounding the patients is to recognise and respect their existence and to make the necessary arrangements to respond to their needs, protect their rights and compensate for their temporary or permanent inability to fulfil their civic duties. A society's social capital is the public good that results from the mutual supportofmembers ofa society: iffor one reason or another, some or all members ofa society fail to offer such support the social capital will diminish and the society will cease to be civic.

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Discrimination Against Mental Patients
Mental Illness and Equity: Matters Conceptual	p. 1
How can madness be defined?	p. 1
The different conceptions about mental illness	p. 2
Discrimination, inequity and mental illness	p. 4
Impairment, disabilities and handicap	p. 4
Summary	p. 6
Madness, Evil and Reason: Matters Historical	p. 9
An old stigma	p. 9
Prejudice in modern times	p. 12
Summary	p. 18
Positive Bias: The Myth of the "Crazy Genius"	p. 21
Art in madmen	p. 22
Psychosis and creativity	p. 24
Mood disorders and creativity	p. 26
Brain damage	p. 29
Psychoanalysis and creativity	p. 30
Summary	p. 32
Negative Bias: Dangerousness and Incompetence	p. 35
Deviance and dangerousness	p. 35
Disability because of brain impairment	p. 39
Chronicity and incompetence	p. 40
Summary	p. 44
Prejudices in the General Population	p. 47
Attitudes towards psychiatry and mental illness	p. 47
The denial of mental illness: From anti-psychiatry to present-day cults	p. 51
Summary	p. 56
Attitudes Towards the Mental Health Professionals	p. 59
Variables in the image of different professionals	p. 59
Stress and burn-out in mental health professionals	p. 63
Summary	p. 68
Prejudice Against Psychiatric Treatments	p. 71
Attitudes towards psychiatric treatment	p. 71
Prejudice against drugs	p. 75
Self-medication	p. 80
Summary	p. 83
How to Overcome Prejudice	p. 87
Modifying prejudice in the general population and in professionals	p. 87
Improving medication compliance	p. 90
Summary	p. 98
Human Rights and Inequity for Mental Patients
The Question of Human Rights of the Mentally Ill	p. 99
Public health policies' impact on human rights	p. 99
Legislation concerning mental health	p. 101
Organisations dealing with issues of the human rights of mental health patients	p. 102
The assessment	p. 104
Summary	p. 106
Non-Discrimination and Equity	p. 111
Non-discrimination in basic rights	p. 111
Equity	p. 112
Controversies	p. 114
Summary	p. 121
Restrictions on Freedom: Involuntary Hospitalisation	p. 125
International documents on restriction on liberty	p. 125
Controversies	p. 126
Summary	p. 131
Uses and Abuses of Psychiatric Diagnosis	p. 135
International documents	p. 136
Controversies	p. 136
Summary	p. 143
Dilemmas Arising in Psychiatric Treatment and Research	p. 145
Treatment	p. 145
Research	p. 149
Confidentiality	p. 150
Summary	p. 152
Discrimination Against the Weak	p. 157
Children and adolescents	p. 157
Women	p. 159
Rights in mental health for persons with mental retardation	p. 161
Rights in mental health for criminal offenders	p. 165
Other underprivileged groups	p. 168
Summary	p. 168
The Conditios in Mental Health Facilities	p. 173
International principles	p. 173
Controversies	p. 174
Summary	p. 182
Specific Ethical Dilemmas in Mental Health	p. 185
Some classical questions	p. 185
Recent ethical dilemmas	p. 187
The deterioration of the doctor-patient relationship	p. 189
Specific problems in managed care settings	p. 190
The need for codes of practice	p. 193
Summary and Conclusions	p. 197
More denigration than prestige	p. 197
The roots of discrimination	p. 198
The denial of mental illness	p. 199
The need for laws protecting mental patients	p. 200
Translating "paper rights" into "real life rights"	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 221
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