Psychiatry and the death penalty.

Kastrup, Marianne

doi:10.1136/jme.14.4.179

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“…Death penalty: One area in which doctors at risk may be involved is the death penalty. Psychiatrists may be involved in capital punishment in several ways (9). One concern is the psychiatric examination of the defendant without making reasonable effort to assure that he has a full understanding of the signi®cance of the assessment.…”

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“…One concern is the psychiatric examination of the defendant without making reasonable effort to assure that he has a full understanding of the signi®cance of the assessment. Further, psychiatrists may be called upon to assess possible future dangerous act, even though research indicates that the most reliable predictors of future violent behaviour have nothing to do with mental illness and the forecast of future dangerousness is not an expert psychiatric one (9).…”

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Abuse of psychiatry

Kastrup¹

2000

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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The Geneva Declaration of 1948 states that doctors shall not permit considerations of religion, nationality, race, party politics or social standing to intervene between their duty as a doctor and their patients. They shall not use their medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity. The UN Principles of Medical Ethics also reminds doctors that their professional relation to persons deprived of their liberty is solely to evaluate, protect or improve their health. Similarly, the Hawaii Declaration from 1983 and the Madrid Declaration from 1996 outline the ethical duties of the psychiatric profession. Thus, there is no doubt as to the professional role as it is delineated in the medical ethics codes. The presence of such codes is, however, only one of the necessary steps to prevent the abuse of psychiatry; others include educational interventions or the establishment of international networks.

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Abuse of psychiatry

Kastrup¹

2000

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…As a medical doctor, I have made an effort to combine my ideology and beliefs with my profession in several ways: e.g., as a member of the Medical Group of Amnesty International (Kastrup, 1987); as a co-founder of the Society for Medical Research on Women that organized regular symposia focusing on the particular concerns of gender disparities in health, research biases, and the obstacles women were encountering when persuing a medical career. In addition, I was a member of the Committee for Equal Opportunities in the Danish Medical Association, focusing on the conditions of female medical doctors (Kroon, Rasmussen, Nielsen, Kringelbach, & Kastrup, 1986) and of the Women's Task Force of the Danish Psychiatric Association (Petersson et al, 1989).…”

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Gender, human rights and cultural diversity: Reflections on a career in transcultural psychiatry

Kastrup¹

2011

Transcult Psychiatry

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The three issues of gender equality, human rights and cultural diversity have dominated my organizational commitments, research, and clinical practice in transcultural psychiatry. These issues are intertwined in many ways and have broad implications for transcultural psychiatry. With increasing globalization, psychiatrists in many countries are likely to be treating patients who have migrated from different cultures and who may have been exposed to a variety of traumatic experiences that have a profound impact on their mental health. Of particular concern is the group of torture survivors and the elucidation of their symptom manifestations, as well as effective therapeutic interventions, which clearly show how human rights issues are linked to research and clinical psychiatry. The analyses of how different ethnic groups use psychiatric services, epitomize how important it is to pay attention to gender aspects in the interpretation of the findings and their therapeutic, as well as policy, implications.

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Assaults by Mentally Disordered Offenders in Prison: Equity and Equivalence

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Dixon

Newton

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Bioethical Inquiry

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Managing the violent behaviour of mentally disordered offenders (MDO) is challenging in all jurisdictions. We describe the ethical framework and practical management of MDOs in England and Wales in the context of the move to equivalence of healthcare between hospital and prison. We consider the similarities and differences between prison and hospital management of the violent and challenging behaviours of MDOs. We argue that both types of institution can learn from each other and that equivalence of care should extend to equivalence of criminal proceedings in court and prisons for MDOs. We argue that any adjudication process in prison for MDOs is enhanced by the relevant involvement of mental health professionals and the articulation of the ethical principles underpinning health and criminal justice practices.

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Psychiatry and the death penalty.

Cited by 7 publications

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Abuse of psychiatry

Abuse of psychiatry

Gender, human rights and cultural diversity: Reflections on a career in transcultural psychiatry

Assaults by Mentally Disordered Offenders in Prison: Equity and Equivalence

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