Guardianship can offer a measure of control and support in the community to individuals suffering from any type of mental disorder, be it mental illness or mental handicap, yet there were only 14 new guardianship cases in Scotland in 1989, compared with 3,604 episodes of detention under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (MWC Annual Report 1989), and out of an estimated total of mentally disordered people in Scotland of more than half a million (Titterton, personal communication).
AbstractUse of network models to identify causal structure typically blocks reduction across the sciences. Entanglement of mental processes with environmental and intentional relationships, as Borsboom et al. argue, makes reduction of psychology to neuroscience particularly implausible. However, in psychiatry, a mental disorder can involve no brain disorder at all, even when the former crucially depends on aspects of brain structure. Gambling addiction constitutes an example.
Why isn't guardianship more popular in Scotland?
