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Mental Health Act: Alleged unlawful detention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Carmel O'Donovan
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On several occasions in 1979 a GP member was consulted by the father and brother of a young man because they were concerned about his violent and aggressive behaviour. The GP arranged for a consultant psychiatrist to visit the patient at home on three occasions, although once he was not in and on the other two refused to see the psychiatrist and threatened him with violence.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 7 , July 1987 , pp. 226 - 227
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