SOME REFLECTIONS ON COERCIVE PSYCHIATRY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE Cover Image

ALCUNE RIFLESSIONI SULLA PSICHIATRIA COERCITIVA NEL QUADRO DELLO STATO COSTITUZIONALE
SOME REFLECTIONS ON COERCIVE PSYCHIATRY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE

Author(s): Alessandro Attilio Negroni
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: psychiatry; compulsory psychiatric treatment; compulsory health treatment; Constitutional State; freedom;

Summary/Abstract: Coercive psychiatry is psychiatry which, through the use of violence, imposes its own health treatments on individuals labelled as mentally ill. This article aims to show some elements of incompatibility between coercive psychiatry and the Constitutional State as ordinarily conceived by contemporary legal political discourse.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 90-113
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Italian