The purpose of detention in a hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983, is for treatment. That should not be surprising because that is what hospitals are for. But it’s not that simple. Why? What’s being treated? What are the objectives? Mental disorder I start off from ‘mental disorder’ because absent the existence of a mental disorder, there is no point considering treatment. [For the avoidance of arbitrary inferences, the converse of any statement made in this post is notRead More …