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Mental health legislation has a lengthy history in most societies. Legislation commonly outlines the circumstances under which treatment without consent is permitted in psychiatric facilities. While the history of mental health legislation varies somewhat across jurisdictions, many saw significant e...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-863762024-01-04T02:16:21Z Chapter 1 History and development of mental health law Kelly, Brendan D. Children and mental health law; Decision-making capacity; Justice and mental health law; Mental health law; UN Convention on Rights of the person with disabilities; World Health Organization’s QualityRights Initiative; coercion; forensic psychiatry and criminal law; gender and mental health law; human rights; involuntary psychiatric treatment; mental health and criminal law; older adults and mental health law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LND Constitutional & administrative law::LNDC Human rights & civil liberties law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAM Comparative law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LND Constitutional & administrative law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNF Criminal law & procedure bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNT Social law::LNTQ Disability & the law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNT Social law::LNTJ Public health & safety law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LB International law::LBL International law reports bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MM Other branches of medicine::MMH Psychiatry Mental health legislation has a lengthy history in most societies. Legislation commonly outlines the circumstances under which treatment without consent is permitted in psychiatric facilities. While the history of mental health legislation varies somewhat across jurisdictions, many saw significant expansions in mental health law during the nineteenth century, especially with the establishment of large public ‘mental hospitals’. These institutions generally declined during the twentieth century as treatments improved, societies became less tolerant of institutions, and bodies such as the United Nations increased their emphasis on human rights. This chapter summarises the history of mental illness and relevant legislation, early efforts to control people deemed ‘mentally ill’, the emergence and decline of mental hospitals, recent emphasis on human rights, and likely future developments. While this chapter uses the examples of Ireland (a high-income country in the Global North) and India (a lower middle-income country in the Global South), many countries remain under-represented in both the historiography and general literature. This chapter concludes that it is essential that mental health laws are just and fair, but that legislation has always been part of a broader social system of care which has commonly failed people with mental illness. We can and must do better. 2024-01-03T13:26:07Z 2024-01-03T13:26:07Z 2024 chapter 9781032128375 9781032128405 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86376 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003226413_10.4324_9781003226413-3.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law Routledge 10.4324/9781003226413-3 10.4324/9781003226413-3 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 45d93939-2e50-411d-80d8-aea85f49f081 60555808-cab5-41d8-b8e6-ec14bb01e756 9781032128375 9781032128405 Routledge 18 Trinity College Dublin Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath open access
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description Mental health legislation has a lengthy history in most societies. Legislation commonly outlines the circumstances under which treatment without consent is permitted in psychiatric facilities. While the history of mental health legislation varies somewhat across jurisdictions, many saw significant expansions in mental health law during the nineteenth century, especially with the establishment of large public ‘mental hospitals’. These institutions generally declined during the twentieth century as treatments improved, societies became less tolerant of institutions, and bodies such as the United Nations increased their emphasis on human rights. This chapter summarises the history of mental illness and relevant legislation, early efforts to control people deemed ‘mentally ill’, the emergence and decline of mental hospitals, recent emphasis on human rights, and likely future developments. While this chapter uses the examples of Ireland (a high-income country in the Global North) and India (a lower middle-income country in the Global South), many countries remain under-represented in both the historiography and general literature. This chapter concludes that it is essential that mental health laws are just and fair, but that legislation has always been part of a broader social system of care which has commonly failed people with mental illness. We can and must do better.
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