BJPsych Open (Sep 2023)

Promoting human rights in mental healthcare: beyond the ‘Geneva impasse’

  • Jill Stavert,
  • George Szmukler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.546
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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The past decade has seen a significant growth in attention to the human rights of persons with disabilities, taken to include mental health conditions. Consequently, challenges to important areas of current psychiatric practice have emerged, with which the profession has, in general, shown limited engagement.

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