Personality disorder: agency and responsibility

Much of the published reaction to the government's Reforming the Mental Health Act (Department of Health, 2000) has been ethical in tone, focusing upon whether it might be justifiable to detain people with personality disorders who have yet to commit a criminal offence. [...]if one takes the ev...

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Published in:British journal of psychiatry 2001-12, Vol.179 (6), p.558-558
Main Author: Spence, S A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain
Commitment of Mentally Ill - legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Intervention
Mental disorders
Mental health
Personality
Personality disorders
Personality Disorders - therapy
Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
United Kingdom
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Summary:Much of the published reaction to the government's Reforming the Mental Health Act (Department of Health, 2000) has been ethical in tone, focusing upon whether it might be justifiable to detain people with personality disorders who have yet to commit a criminal offence. [...]if one takes the evidence at face value, personality disorders are brain disorders amenable to psychotherapeutic intervention. The evidence that psychotherapeutic interventions treat personality disorder seems often to emerge from institutions with a vested interest in demonstrating success.
ISSN:0007-1250
1472-1465
DOI:10.1192/bjp.179.6.558