Book contents
- Psychiatry and Human Nature
- Reviews
- Psychiatry and Human Nature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part ITowards Psychiatric Formulation
- Part IIPsychiatry and Ethics
- Chapter 8Suicide
- Chapter 9Mental Capacity
- Chapter 10Mental Capacity
- Chapter 11Treatment with and without Mutuality
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Chapter 10 - Mental Capacity
Imagining the Future
from Part II - Psychiatry and Ethics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2025
Book contents
- Psychiatry and Human Nature
- Reviews
- Psychiatry and Human Nature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part ITowards Psychiatric Formulation
- Part IIPsychiatry and Ethics
- Chapter 8Suicide
- Chapter 9Mental Capacity
- Chapter 10Mental Capacity
- Chapter 11Treatment with and without Mutuality
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Continues the discussion of mental capacity with expansion of the debates brought by the romantic perspective. Presents the political demand for radical equality coming from left romanticism with its wild ‘abolitionist’ agenda on the one hand, and a seeding of some new social approaches to capacity assessment on the other. A deeper inquiry into mental capacity and mood disorder using romantic ideas of temporality is presented as additional stimulus for the evolution of mental capacity. Some characteristics of mental capacity fitting it to a ‘superconcept’ are explained, which may guide future interdisciplinary research and teaching.
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- Psychiatry and Human NatureClassic and Romantic Perspectives, pp. 133 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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