Psychiatry is a review journal presenting current knowledge and practice of psychiatric conditions, treatments and outcome in a structured three-year "curriculum". With guidance from highly regarded editorial board members and chapter editors, and contributions from leading experts in all key psychiatric specialties, our aim is to describe accepted principles and practice, and to indicate recent advances that will improve the understanding of mental healthcare and the care of patients. Psychiatry provides information for basic and higher specialist trainees, consultant psychiatrists and specialists in psychological medicine, GPs with a special interest in mental health, psychiatric nurses and other mental health professionals. Editorial Office Vicky Chapman Managing Editor Medicine Publishing The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. psychiatry@medicinepublishing.co.uk
Psychiatry
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ISSN | 1476-1793 |
Publisher
Elsevier Science
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Data set: Elsevier
Articles
Psychiatry > 2009 > 8 > 12 > 493-495
In 2008, Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) became available under the amended Mental Health Act 2007 as a means of supervizing people with severe mental disorders in the community following involuntary hospital stays. The orders were intended to prevent relapse following discharge from hospital by requiring the patient to comply with treatment. Patients can be recalled to hospital should they not...
Psychiatry > 2009 > 8 > 12 > 471-472
Truth-telling has been part of one of the great bioethical shifts of the 20th century, from medical paternalism to respect for patient autonomy. Some argue that there are psychiatric cases where truth-telling is less necessary, however. The three standard justifications for medical deception – that the truth can be anti-therapeutic, that patients don't want to know the truth, and that telling the...
Psychiatry > 2009 > 8 > 12 > 478-480
The Mental Health Act (1983) and the Mental Capacity Act (2005) (both amended by the Mental Health Act (2007)) together provide a comprehensive framework for the care and treatment of people with a mental disorder in England and Wales. The Mental Health Act relates solely to the treatment of mental disorders whilst the Mental Capacity Act has much wider applicability to decisions surrounding treatment...