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Pax Iliev: law, life and care in transition
Author(s) -
Tomov T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.0902-4441.2000.007s020[dash]23.x
Subject(s) - intimidation , sanity , presentation (obstetrics) , the void , law , mental health , work (physics) , psychology , political science , sociology , criminology , medicine , psychiatry , engineering , philosophy , epistemology , radiology , mechanical engineering
The presentation proceeds from a clinical case of domestic violence, its management in terms of professional roles and institutional involvement and the analysis of the dynamic mental processes. It is argued that regimes of total control abolish legal systems and leave a void behind. In the course of transition to civil society, rule by intimidation and threat at a local community level is the rule. Suffering and trauma are intense and health systems necessarily become involved. A pattern of decontextualizing depression may be common and revealing of institutional defence mechanisms at work. Continuous affirmation of procedures of good practice, e.g. supervision, gives a chance for the preservation of institutional sanity and professional ethics.