Promoting human rights in mental healthcare: beyond the ‘Geneva impasse’

Stavert, Jill; Szmukler, George

Abstract

The past decade has seen a significant growth in attention to the human rights of persons with disabilities, taken to include mental health conditions. Consequently, challenges to important areas of current psychiatric practice have emerged, with which the profession has, in general, shown limited engagement.

• Journal Article Type: Editorial
• Acceptance Date: Jul 18, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Aug 11, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-09
• Deposit Date: Aug 21, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 21, 2023
• Journal: BJPsych Open
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 5
• Article Number: e155
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.546
• Keywords: Human rights, psychiatry and law, autonomy, consent and capacity, ethics