The enactment of a single legislative scheme governing nonconsensual treatment of both ‘physical’
and ‘mental’ illnesses, based on incapacity principles, has been mooted in recent …

Advance statements documenting mental health service consumers’ preferences for treatment
during a future mental health crisis or period of incapacity have gained currency in recent …

• A controlled trial comparing family therapy with individual supportive therapy in anorexia
nervosa and bulimia nervosa was undertaken. Eighty patients (57 with anorexia nervosa; 23 …

Very few useful measures of service functioning are as yet available for the evaluation of
mental health services. Continuity of care has been identified as “the strategic first choice” for …

Background: There is evidence that specific psychological treatments are effective in patients
with eating disorders. Our goal was to determine by means of a controlled trial whether …

… aimed at reducing morbidity and enhancing well-being in a consecutive series of relatives
of patients with schizophrenia discharged from hospital 6 weeks earlier (Szmukler etal. 1996). …

Forty-one patients with anorexia nervosa, admitted to the Maudsley Hospital between 1959
and 1966, were followed up after a mean of 20 years. An assessment of general outcome (…

Body image and weight loss beliefs and behaviors were assessed in 341 female and 221
male high school students. Estimates of body dissatisfaction varied depending on the …

Objective To investigate whether a form of advance agreement for people with severe mental
illness can reduce the use of inpatient services and compulsory admission or treatment. …

The neuropsychological performance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain
appearance of a consecutive series of 46 in-patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) was compared …