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Health: Lost: one mental health bill
Author(s) -
FIRTH WILSON
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00723.x
Subject(s) - conviction , mental health , psychiatry , psychology , borderline personality disorder , personality , mental health act , psychoanalysis , law , political science
The decision to draft a new mental health bill followed the majority conviction in 1998 of Michael Stone for the murder of Lin and Megan Russell two years before. Stone was known to the psychiatric services at the time and had been diagnosed as suffering from a personality disorder. He had been offered help but had not been detained, on the basis that his condition was regarded as not treatable. Then and now the likelihood of benefit from treatment is a requirement to allow the detention of someone with personality disorder.