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Compulsory Psychiatric Treatment: the Case For

29 September, 2010
By Raphael Fraser

I’ve written a fair bit lamenting the misuse of psychiatry and mental health services for the wrong ends – shading into social control at times. While that is all true, and I don’t shrink from saying so, I thought maybe I should also present the case for compulsory treatment. I’ll start by illustrating with reference...

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Midweek Medicine: interface with law

18 November, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

Psychiatry’s Peculiar Place I was struck today (not for the first time) by the peculiar place psychiatry has, in comparison to the other medical specialties. As psychiatrists we are one of only two groups in society who can detain people and restrict their basic freedoms. We can only do so in very closely-defined circumstances, but...

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Say NO to the National School Chaplaincy Program

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