THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE MENTALLY ILL IN EUROPE under the European Convention on Human Rights

THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE MENTALLY ILL IN EUROPE under the European Convention on Human Rights

contents: 1. Intro 2. Deprivation of liberty: detention and the mantally ill 3. Article 4(4) and judicial review of commitment 4. The use of psychiatric examinations 5. Article 6 and the civil rights of the mentally ill 6. Atricle 8 and the right to privacy and family life 7. Article 3 and the prohibition on torture, inhauman and degrading treatment 8. Treatment for involuntarily committed patients List of relevant cases literature and ECHR decisions and reports.

Wachenfeld, Margaret G.

The Danish Centre for Human Rights 1992, 291pp

SR E 60