5 sett 1959 anni - Mental Health Act

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Prioritised the deinstitutionalisation of mental health patients and a paradigm shift towards community care. Furthermore sought to make treatment voluntary and informal; and, where compulsory, give it a proper legal framework and made as a medical decision. Defined the term "mental disorder" as: “mental illness; arrest or incomplete development of mind; psychopathic disorder; and any other disorder or disability of mind”

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