The independent review of mental health legislation: a real opportunity for change?

摘要

There have been many critics of the discriminatory nature of the 1983 Mental Health Act, most notably people diagnosed with mental health challenges themselves (see, e.g. Chamberlin, 1977 and O'Hagan, 2014) and Professor George Szmukler and his colleagues (Dawson and Szmukler, 2006; Szmukler and Holloway, 1998, 2000; Szmukler, 2010, 2017). Based on the work of such people, we have written about the intrinsically discriminatory nature of mental health legislation in the pages of Mental Health and Social Inclusion (Perkins and Repper, 2014).