منابع مشابه
Dangerous and severe personality disorder.
The Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) initiative was introduced a decade ago against overwhelming opposition from psychiatrists and others concerned with the implications of extending the public protection agenda through the use of a questionable medical 'diagnosis'. As this initiative is now being scaled down, it offers an opportunity to consider the positive and negative aspect...
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Following a high profile murder in 1996, the government in England moved to involuntarily contain individuals, almost all men, who were thought to be at risk of violence and to have a personality disorder. In 2008 the Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder program of assessment, commitment and treatment for this newly defined legal category of persons went into effect. The program was initially ...
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Personality disorders represent a medico-legal problem that refuses to go away, despite continuing attempts to debunk them as ‘mythological’ (Mullen, 2007). In the 1970s and early 1980s psychiatrists became increasingly reluctant to use the ‘psychopathic disorder’ label to section people under the 1959 Mental Health Act (MHA), with the consequence that personality-disordered offenders were incr...
متن کاملA British psychiatrist objects to the dangerous and severe personality disorder proposals.
Since I returned to England last year, I have been totally fascinated by the recent, almost perverse, obsession with offenders who suffer personality disorders. First, this group was the focus of a major public inquiry into a hospital unit that housed patients with personality disorders. It was alleged that the staff had lost control of security and also had lost sight of their therapeutic obje...
متن کاملPatients' experience of dangerous and severe personality disorder services: qualitative interview study.
As part of an evaluation of the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) Programme, we conducted in-depth interviews with 60 participants purposely sampled across four pilot DSPD units. This report is limited to the finding with potential `conceptual generalisability': namely the unanticipated finding of negative and hostile attitudes of participants being managed in hospital units comp...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.10.2.160