Schizophrenia and Involuntary Treatment in the Case of Malka Magnesia E

1 IntroductionMalka Magnesia, a second year semipolitical science student with an A average, suddenly re-pairs to the attic of her parents interior(a) and refuses to go to school or to work. She explains that she has been ordered by her superiors in another galaxy simply to sit and repent. Her distraught family pleads with her to seek medical assistance that she refuses on the grounds that her superiors consider her unworthy. The family psychiatrist advises that exposure to some of the modern drugs has been known to reduce such schizophrenic symptoms within a extent of weeks.To what extent, if at all, should the justness permit the involuntary hospitalization and drug treatment of Malka Magnesia? To what extent, if at all, would it make any difference if she suddenly went into the streets and started giving to add 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 difference if, for the sa me reasons, she began to fast? To whatever extent you would permit some form of coercion, write out the criteria and safeguards, which should apply.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows In the next section, the three different levels of Malka Magnesias illness are examined regarding the question whether she should be involuntarily hospitalized and medicated. In the last 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 akin to being incarcerated for the rest of her life, something usually reserved for serious criminal offenders. however her treatment would probably improve her condition insofar that she will be able to be released. All in all, this alternative seems worse than involuntary medication. full treatment CitedDepartment of Justice (2010) Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. http//laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/1.htmlanchorbo-gal_I. (Last retrieved December 7th, 2010).Gray, J. /OReilly, R. (2009) Supreme court of Canadas Beautiful Mind case. In International 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.