The historical background: the past 25 years since the Mental Health Act of 1959

Interest in psychotherapy integration has steadily expanded over the past decades, reaching most continents of the world and more mental health professionals than ever. Nevertheless, a country’s cultural and historical background significantly influences the nurturance or hindrance of integrative endeavors. This chapter seeks to explicate the current climate of psychotherapy integration in different continents and specific countries. With the aid of local integrative scholars, brief descriptions are presented on integrative practice, training, and research, as well as on cultural and sociopolitical issues that have shaped this movement’s impact around the world.

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‘Offenders, Deviants or Patients’ - Comments on Part Two of the White Paper

International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law ◽

10.19164/ijmhcl.v1i5.355 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (5) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Herschel Prins

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Good Deal ◽

Legal Framework ◽

White Paper ◽

Green Paper ◽

Expert Committee ◽

The Past ◽

Mental Health Act ◽

The Government

<p align="LEFT">The Government White Paper Reforming the Mental Health Act follows closely on the heels of the Green Paper - Reform of the Mental Health Act, 1983 which derives from (but also departs from in many respects) the Report of the Expert Committee chaired by Professor Genevra Richardson. One could say, with some justification, that mental health professionals have been ‘deluged’ with paper in this area in the past year or two, so that trying to discern trends has become very difficult. In particular, the material in the White Paper is somewhat closely written and needs to be read with a good deal of care (or, so it seemed to me). To complicate matters further, offender-patients are also discussed in Part I of the White Paper (The Legal Framework) whereas it would have been more logical to have dealt with the proposed provisions for them in Part II. For clarity, I propose to deal with all these matters under one heading.</p>

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Section 48: an underused provision?

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.16.2.97 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 97-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tim Exworthy ◽

Janet M. Parrott ◽

Paul K. Bridges

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Medical Treatment ◽

Mental Impairment ◽

The Past ◽

Mental Health Act ◽

Secretary Of State

Section 48 of the Mental Health Act, 1983 (MHA) permits the Secretary of State to authorise the removal to hospital of an unsentenced prisoner who is ‘suffering from mental illness or severe mental impairment of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for him to be detained in a hospital for medical treatment and that he is in urgent need of such treatment’. (Mental Health Act, 1983). Its common usage in the past has been in transfers of unsentenced prisoners from prison to hospital.

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Mental Health Guardianship—a Change for the Better?

Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists ◽

10.1192/s0140078900006982 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 6 (10) ◽

pp. 176-177

Author(s):

Gareth W. Hughes

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Disorder ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Psychiatric Practice ◽

Mentally Disordered ◽

The Past ◽

Mental Health Act ◽

Compulsory Care ◽

The Uk ◽

As If

The 1959 Mental Health Act has provided the legal framework for psychiatric practice in the UK for the past two decades. The Mental Health (Amendment) Bill (DHSS, 1981) currently before Parliament proposes to update the Act by improving the safeguards for detained patients, clarifying the position of staff looking after them, and by the removal of uncertainties in the law. The Bill incorporates changes relating to the compulsory care of Mentally Disordered patients in the community whereby a person may be accepted into Guardianship on the grounds that he or she is suffering from a Mental Disorder. Once accepted into Guardianship, the person or body named as Guardian has the power to exercise control over the person as if he or they were the father of the patient, and the patient was under 14 years of age.

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Special care wards: are they special?

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.19.5.310 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

pp. 310-312 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Anthony Zigmond

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Special Care ◽

Second Opinion ◽

The Past ◽

Mental Health Act ◽

Special Knowledge

Over the past four years I have visited a number of special care wards (also known as locked/intensive care/secure wards) and interviewed many staff and patients, both as a Mental Health Act Commissioner and as a second opinion appointed doctor. It has been suggested to me that my observations may be of some interest. The points are not exhaustive nor are they research based. Before continuing I must also declare that I have no special knowledge or expertise in the care or treatment of patients in this setting.

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Community psychiatry in developing countries – a misnomer?

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.25.6.226 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 25 (6) ◽

pp. 226-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Saeed Farooq ◽

Fareed A. Minhas

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Community Psychiatry ◽

Historical Background ◽

Western Countries ◽

The Past ◽

Developed World

There has been a rush towards community psychiatry in the developed world in the past few decades (Tyrer, 1998a). In developing countries the concept has been equally popular and various programmes have been described (Burns, 1998; Goldberg, 1992; Issac, 1996). The term ‘community psychiatry’ originates from a peculiar historical background, is based on certain principles and is shaped by the existing pattern of mental health services in many Western countries. Although the term is vague, its application is especially problematic in developing countries. In this article an attempt will be made to highlight the origins of the term community psychiatry and its application in developing countries.

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Trends in mental health review tribunal and hospital managers' hearings in north-east London 1997–2007

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.bp.107.018606 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 15-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dhananjay Kumar Singh ◽

Joanna Moncrieff

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Marital Status ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Clinical Implications ◽

Hospital Managers ◽

The Past ◽

Mental Health Act ◽

North East ◽

Health Review

Aims and MethodTo examine trends in appeals to mental health review tribunals and hospital managers' panels in a hospital covering two outer London boroughs from 1997 to 2007. Data were also used to explore associations between demographic variables, including ethnicity, and the results of appeal hearings.ResultsThe number of detentions under Mental Health Act Sections 2, 3 and 37 rose from 203 in 1996 to 279 in 2006. the percentage of these that went to appeal increased from 34% to 81% during the same period. However, there was no observed trend in the result of the appeals. the results were not associated with gender, ethnicity, marital status, age or the section involved; 12% of appeals were successful.Clinical ImplicationsThe study shows rising use of the Mental Health Act over the past 10 years and an increasing volume of appeals against its use. Since appeals are no more likely to result in discharge, the increased use of the Mental Health Act is not balanced by increased rates of discharge by review hearings. the study also demonstrates the rising workload for all involved in appeal hearings.

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Mental health law in Hungary

International Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/s174936760000388x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 63-64

Author(s):

Tamás Kurimay ◽

János Vizi

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Historical Background ◽

Health Law ◽

Mental Health Law ◽

Mental Health Act

There is no separate mental health act in Hungary and there has never been one. This paper gives some historical background and then summarises the legislation that relates to mental health.

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