Members of the Mental Health and Justice research project gathered across the workstreams, alongside participants of the Service User Advisory Group (SUAG) the Advisory Board and Bethlem Gallery, for the MHJ Colloquium 2019. Convening at the Wellcome Trust in London on 16 September, each workstream presented the developments and future areas of research to the
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Mental Health and Justice colloquium 2019
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Surveying the Geneva impasse: Coercive care and human rights
Surveying the Geneva impasse: Coercive care and human rights Wayne Martin, Sándor Gurbai International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Volume 64, May–June 2019, Pages 117-128 Researchers from Workstream 4, focusing on ‘insight’, publish a new paper in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, looking at the differences between ‘coercive’ and ‘non-consensual’ care interventions under the United
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Objectivity in science and law: A shared rescue strategy
A new study by Matthew Burch (WS4), and Katherine Furman is published in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (Vol 64, May-June 2019). Objectivity in science and law: A shared rescue strategy “The ideal of objectivity is in crisis in science and the law, and yet it continues to do important work in both practices. This
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Open Access Gateway Misevaluating the Future: Affective Disorder and Decision-Making Capacity for Treatment – A Temporal Understanding
A new study from MHJ researchers using in-depth interviews with patients/service users experiencing mood disorder. The study aims to understand how the future is experienced from the standpoint of severe depression and mania and how this impacts on decision-making capacity for treatment. It proposes that self -determination can be effected – both in severe depression
