About the self-determination of the treatment by the non-voluntary inpatient in the mind medical care

Abstract

Some patients may be hospitalized without an agreement because there is not consciousness of their disease in the mind medical care. Even in these cases, psychiatric clinicians try to inform a patient with the mental disorder of that disease and its treatment method kindly. However, they usually reject some treatment such as medication or electro-convulsive therapy. Psychiatrists sometimes prescribe antipsychotic drugs for the patients informed of nothing. Psychiatrists are worried about doing it without the informed consents. There are medical ethical problems.