Abusive treatment of patients in psychiatric hospitals

Patients in psychiatric hospitals, particularly those committed for long terms have been abused in many ways. Patient's money is pilfered. They are neglected; hospital managers don't manage; senior physicians abdicate from care; senior nurses are rigid and fail to adopt modern methods of care and government agencies fail to inspect hospitals. Patients are physically and sexually abused. The physical surrounds are unpleasant. Activities are boring. Many lack adequate medical treatment and even sufficient food.

Staff of a UK special security hospital cited in 1992 numerous instances of deliberate and cruel abuse of patients, both mentally and physically. Brain-damaged patients were ridiculed and intimidated, others were tormented and insulted. Patient confidentiality and privacy was repeatedly breached.

1. Human violence
2. Denial of rights of patients suffering from mental illness

1. Mental cruelty
2. Electroshock therapy

1. Psychological conflict
2. Denial of the right to procreate to the severely mentally handicapped

1. Inadequate training of psychiatric workers
2. Inadequate rehabilitation facilities for the disabled
3. Disruptive behaviour in health rehabilitation institutions
4. Discrimination against intellectual disability

1. Unethical practices of health services
2. Unethical practices in psychotherapy

1. Using brutality
2. Treating patients in psychiatric hospitals
3. Exposing physical brutality in special care hospitals

1. Maltreatment
2. Care
3. Brutality
4. Abuse