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Detention – the grey area

Problems in the use of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Oscar E. Daly
Oscar E. Daly*
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Purdysburn Hospital, Belfast
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In September 1978 the Government published a review of the Mental Health Act (1959). This review was prompted to a large degree by an increasing awareness of the rights of the mentally ill and by an awareness among psychiatrists of the limits of their management procedures. The proposals of this review were largely incorporated into the Mental Health Act (1983). Among the proposals so incorporated was one that persons could not be detained in hospital against their will for assessment or treatment “by reason only of promiscuity or other immoral conduct, sexual deviancy or dependence on alcohol or drugs”.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 12 - 13
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