Should we be forcing people with severe mental illness to have treatment they don't want?
- Written by Christopher Ryan, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Until 2013, laws in every Australian state and territory allowed people to be forced to have psychiatric treatment even if they competently refused it.from shutterstock.comImagine you are diagnosed with cancer. As awful as that is, you look into the side-effects of chemotherapy and decide they are even worse. You tell your doctor you don’t...
