Aagau nirdeshaannusaar saykiyaatree kshetraat manvee hakkanche sanrakshan karane

Abstract

Psychiatry as a medical (and natural scientific) discipline cannot do justice to the expectation of solving mental problems that are largely of a social nature. Its diagnostic methods obstruct the view of the real problems of individuals in society. Its propensity and practice to use force constitutes a threat against the human right to bodily integrity. People with physical medical diagnoses have the right to say no; the same right is denied to people with psychiatric diagnoses. So they need to protect themselves by special means - for example, by a Psychosocial Advance Directive, as described in this chapter.