Insight and capacity to consent to electroconvulsive therapy.

Russ ScottSteve Prowacki

Published in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2019)

After considering the concepts of insight and capacity to consent to treatment, the paper concludes that the decision in NJE and PBU v Mental Health Tribunal [2018] VSC 564 is problematic clinically.

Keyphrases

mental health
mental illness
decision making
smoking cessation