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A mental health court hearing in Czechoslovakia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David B. Mumford
David B. Mumford*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LT
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I was requested at short notice by Christian Solidarity International, a Swiss-based human rights group, to attend a court hearing in Czechoslovakia concerning a married couple who were being compulsorily detained in a psychiatric hospital. CSI had been alerted by a local Catholic activist, himself a former patient of the same hospital. The Czech authorities facilitated my attendance at the court hearing along with an English solicitor and provided an interpreter.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 23 - 25
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