Between Consensus and Conflict: Law-Making Processes in Germany

Between Consensus and Conflict: Law-Making Processes in Germany

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Law and Cultural Conflict

Legal conceptualizations, legal fictions, and the manipulation of reality: conflict between models of decision making in psychiatry and law.

When epistemologic problems arise at junctures in relation to the interface between psychiatry and law, the conflicts between these disciplines are commonly based on a fundamental difference in conceptualization, at times, even a clash of models of the world. This article discusses legal and psychiatric models in conflict around scientific data, modes of clinical practice, and the manipulation ...

System Dynamics within consensus based decision making processes

The present paper contains some notes about the use of System Dynamics (SD) as a multi role tool within processes of consensus based decision making ([BR04] and [EHLS05]) applied to environmental problems and strategies. Decision making processes are time consuming processes involving actors as decision makers, stakeholders and experts in a succession of phases ([PGSR99], [PGSR99]) that involve...

Mental health law in Germany

There is no national mental health law in Germany: the 16 German states are responsible for legislation concerning forced admissions, while the German Civil Code covers non-acute care, in particular for those not able to care for themselves. In forensic psychiatry, both federal and state laws apply. This article describes this situation and provides figures about detentions and other aspects of...