Is the Refusal of Care "Symptomatic of a Mental Pathology"?
The CICNS reads the proceedings of a GEMPPI colloquium on refusals of care for ideological causes and finds the professionals answering the associations' question in the negative: a prison psychiatrist explains that the obligation to undergo care cannot apply and that religious refusal is not a psychiatric pathology, and the National Consultative Ethics Committee's opinion 87 holds that one has the right to be mad so long as that madness harms no one else.
1 March 2011