Schizophrenia and Involuntary Treatment in the Case of Malka Magnesia E

1 IntroductionMalka magnesia, a second year governmental recognition student with an A average, unawares re-pairs to the attic of her parents home and refuses to go to school or to work. She explains that she has been ordered by her superiors in another beetleweed simply to sit and repent. Her distraught family pleads with her to seek medical assistance nevertheless she refuses on the grounds that her superiors consider her unworthy. The family psychiatrist advises that exposure to virtually of the modern medicines has been known to reduce such schizophrenic symptoms within a period of weeks.To what extent, if at all, should the law digest the impulsive hospitalization and drug treatment of Malka Magnesia? To what extent, if at all, would it lay down any difference if she suddenly went into the streets and started giving to total strangers, large sums of money from her inheritance, because, again, it was ordered by her superiors? And, to what ex-tent would it make any diff erence if, for the same reasons, she began to fast? To whatever extent you would permit some form of coercion, spell out the criteria and safeguards, which should apply.The remainder of the paper is organised as follows In the next section, the three different stages of Malka Magnesias illness are examined regarding the question whether she should be involuntarily hospitalized and medicated. In the inhabit section of this paper, the main find-ings are summarized.2 Three different stages of Malka Magnesias illness2.1 Malka secludes to the atticThe first stage of Malkas illness, in which she secludes herself in the attic and refuses to go to neither school or work, at first glance seems rather harmless It is mentioned that she is a political science student with an A... ...lized indefinitely (cf. Gray/OReilly 2009). This would be indeed kindred to being incarcerated for the rest of her life, something usually reserved for serious criminal offenders. plainly her treatment would pr obably improve her condition insofar that she will be able to be released. All in all, this alternative seems worse than involuntary medication.Works CitedDepartment of Justice (2010) Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. http//laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ lease/1.htmlanchorbo-gal_I. (Last retrieved December 7th, 2010).Gray, J. /OReilly, R. (2009) Supreme court of Canadas Beautiful Mind case. In planetary journal of law and psychiatry, Vol. 32, Issue 5, pp. 315-322.Gupta, M. (2001) Treatment refusal in the involuntarily hospitalized psychiatric population Canadian policy and practice. In Medicine and Law, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 245-265.