compliance and legal accountability --- For psychiatric disorders I see both high potential and high danger. Some of the problems we face now are not due to the unavailability of a treatment, but lack compliance, which is partly due to the pathology itself. Another issue is that treatment can in rare cases make the issue worse, and lead for example to suicide. The other issue -not only for the psychiatric patients- is: who/when are you accountable for your actions? Does a treatment make you more accountable than if you are not treated = considered sick?

Source author: Katharina Beyer katharina.beyer@etu.unige.ch