If we did to others what psychiatry does to many people it would be considered assault I think? Since there is no valid reliable scientific medical evidence to call it a disease, there is no right to use mental illness to restrain a person or force your will on them in that way. So I want to know what assault is and what psychiatric assualt would be? If you could prove this who would you charge for it and how?
2006-09-13 02:24:38 · 4 answers · asked by Friend 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
To lock someone up or drug them against their will is a physical thing so that would be a physical assault, just the same as if you hit them in the face to damage them.
2006-09-13 02:33:00 · update #1
"in most states pyschiatrist have the duty to protect mentally ill persons from being a danger to themselves or others".
Who makes this determination of what and who is dangerous? Isn't driving a car, certain jobs, sports, ect. dangerous? Do those people get locked up, why or why not?
Are you sure the only time that someone would indeed be locked up against their will is if they were dangerous? Once it is done to a person is it easier to do it again any time someone decides that they need it dangerous or not? Isn't it because of the law that this is able to happen? Does calculating mean manipulative? In a free society isn't it a persons constitutional right not to be locked up unless they have committed a crimel? If someone hurts someone else, isn't there courts and jails for that? If someone is going to hurt themselves people do have accidents now and then so how does one make the determination between accident and purpose? Who defines that and how?
2006-09-13 04:43:23 · update #2
If they have the right to protect the person from harming themselves or others, then why does what they do harm millions of people every day? If it is what they take an oath to do, do no harm, then why does what they do hurt people for the rest of their lives?
2006-09-18 16:16:59 · update #3
.. How many people are locked up in a prison or mental institution some place due to poverty and other social problems of control? How many people in our society hold a dangerous job, even life threatening at times, but are not locked up as a danger to them self? How many people believe this war is correct and are not locked up for harming others? These diagnoses are simply not scientific according to the APA, NAMI, and the Surgeon General of the U.S. they are textbook theories only, because there is no real scientific proof and they know it, that is why they are changing it to "evidence" based science.
2006-09-21 02:31:00 · update #4
Once people are addicted or conformed to this dangerous medication they have to stay on it to keep the levels of the chemical compounds of these medications in their bodies up to what they are accustomed to or they can go into toxic withdrawels and even die. It is not true that if a person harms someone or their self that it is because they quit taking their medication, the truth is that these mind altering drugs cause irratic behaviors and other social problems like drug abuse in people. Psychiatrist are getting major bucks in their pockets. They get kickbacks from drug companies and constant patients by hooking people on these drugs against their will and that is assault. The so called medicine of today keeps the mental institutions in business with people cycling from the communities to the hospitals and clinics. I hope that these dark days will soon be over.
2006-09-21 02:31:51 · update #5
Psychiatric assault is the use of mental threat to a person. It has no physical or actual hostility but it is all in the mind.
2006-09-13 02:29:15 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
.. How many people do you know that are in our society,that fit this category and are not locked up . When the patient is diagnosed as having a mental illness,and is let out as an out-patient,they have to stay on their medication.If patient does harm to someone and their self,it is because they quit taking their medication.What is the help of a psychiatrist doing,but trying to help someone.Sixty years ago they did have some weird ways of dealing with patients.Now the medicine of today,keeps the mental institutions out of business.The dark days are over,a person off their medication can be delusional.I'm having a hard time with this question is this some kind of Baker Act.
?If it is ,then their was a threat to others and a danger to their self.The law reads that they can detain anyone for24to 48 hrs.,observation.This is to determine if there is a substance causing the problem are is the person in need of mental help.30years ago they started to let patient out of institution and back into society many go homeless,or commit crimes and are locked up and misdiagnosed.
2006-09-21 01:23:22 · answer #2 · answered by Rather be dead than red... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in most states pyschiatrist have the duty to protect mentally ill persons from being a danger to themselves or others. locking someone up or restraining them against their will only happens under these circumstances and then again very calculating as to not be a law enforcer. assualt could be if a dr. made rude remarks insulting derogratory,physical abuse kissing touchin,overstepping the pateint dr boundaries
2006-09-13 03:49:17 · answer #3 · answered by d s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 they have the right to protect the person from harming themselves or others it what they take an oath to do no harm.
2006-09-18 16:09:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋